From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" To: "Danko, Gary" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Pushing out Cygwin installations Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:19:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.1.2.20010111121206.02266ef8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <8928D5E06A71D4118C13001083F9AD4FDE1B45@sandiego-ex1.sandiego.akamai.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00547.html At 12:01 PM 1/11/2001, Danko, Gary wrote: >I couldn't find this anywhere in the archives. I want to install Cygwin once >and push it out to about 150 indentical servers. I tried copying the >directory as well as the registry key to another server but that failed to >give me the desired results. > >The NEW installation couldn't find "root" so that made me curious. Where >does Cygwin store the information about the location of root? > >If I install Cygwin on one machine.. How could I copy that installation >reliably to another machine? > >Thanks >Gary The output of "mount" will tell you where the machine that you moved stuff to thinks the root is. If you've moved the registry keys correctly and if they make sense for the new machine, there shouldn't be any problem theoretically. Still, I haven't tried this myself so there may be other issues in practice. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple