From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58351 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2018 15:34:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 58235 invoked by uid 89); 27 Nov 2018 15:34:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=gilbert, Gilbert, Hx-languages-length:1022, Brker X-HELO: mail-io1-f53.google.com Received: from mail-io1-f53.google.com (HELO mail-io1-f53.google.com) (209.85.166.53) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:34:20 +0000 Received: by mail-io1-f53.google.com with SMTP id m19so17293542ioh.3 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:34:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MxSGrsnuCUu4SLgA66YTp6eBqr6JtDYJEtkrTEb9xH4=; b=Mrd5E+z8KRQeEeYH6fACl5g7j5GI/P4MRdmYakQfsAnePEebSkjW6JTAW0KnEV5+Xz 9F3UZmBH1dRNLoqH6AFvmrsVys8cxfQ15F5ounS9zZWMuBRqiM7EAw2/ctou2KvaHMzh kT4WJ8YBB0J5N6g7HE32FdOyvv5SzC3dkG3rjXZ3SH52h55bn2/4O0z71lE8oA14zY2n j99xCu2xIP8sG0hlkxEjWmhc6vbYI+R/rYmLBhZc23GsvGRSQNdke1HF2mqt/QnLgRBl Ccq+turPL2YKt3/VQLhDEl2f0FtucxVixxLYEfDxz2jbSaJs310njQmbu8Pc2TKjxWjG 4ayg== Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.0.3] (d47-69-109-131.nap.wideopenwest.com. [69.47.131.109]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j17-v6sm2004464itj.0.2018.11.27.07.34.17 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:34:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1855438423.20181127181237@yandex.ru> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <2462d209-9cea-a566-42f0-733179403f43@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:34:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1855438423.20181127181237@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-11/txt/msg00219.txt.bz2 On 11/27/2018 10:12 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gilbert St. Firmin! > >> On: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:08:35 +0100, >> Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: >> You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has >> no 'tar' to unpack that file. > >> Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be used on both old and new >> computers? Also, perhaps the Windows Image Format (WIM) could be used >> instead, presuming UUIDs would not be an issue if both computers shared >> identical machine names and accounts. > >> Just curious. > > Don't be, just install Cygwin the recommended way. > The task of system administrator is to solve problems, not to create them. > And trying to circumvent regular installation process is sure asking for > trouble one way or another. > In other words, try it, if it works for you great, if it doesn't don't come here with your problems until you've attempted the described process. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple