From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30094 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2013 20:17:06 -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 30084 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jun 2013 20:17:06 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from nm30-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO nm30-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.86) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:17:05 +0000 Received: from [66.94.237.199] by nm30.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2013 20:17:02 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.62] by tm10.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2013 20:17:02 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp103.biz.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jun 2013 20:17:02 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: ycweUreswBCK.d0cygTP5tXwHncbOU7YVeVfIxOQoyRMI2IuIKLmUqE- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.10.27] (lmh_users-groups@71.232.178.58 with plain) by smtp103.biz.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2013 13:17:02 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <51CC9DC1.3000309@molconn.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:19:00 -0000 From: LMH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: offline cygwin install question References: <51CB4C14.4030909@molconn.com> <20130627083233.GI6966@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130627165959.GA7709@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <51CC7BD4.6020208@molconn.com> <20130627191501.GA5391@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20130627191501.GA5391@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00699.txt.bz2 > I don't see why. If the directory is duplicated precisely I don't see > how it could matter. What I was referring to here was to just copy the cygwin local package directory that contains setup.exe and the http% mirror directories, not the directory that contains installed cygwin. When I moved the local package directory to a new machine and ran setup.exe with install from local directory, there sometimes were problems. If there was only one http% directory /http%3a%2f%2fwww.gtlib.gatech.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f /setup.exe /setup.log (meaning all of the cygwin install on the machine where I took the setup.exe dir from had been done from the same mirror) then running setup.exe worked fine and I got a functional cygwin. If found that if there were several mirror directories, /http%3a%2f%2fcygutils.fruitbat.org%2fITP%2fmingw-gcc%2f /http%3a%2f%2fmirror.cs.vt.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2fcygwin%2f /http%3a%2f%2fwww.gtlib.gatech.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f /setup.exe /setup.log then running setup.exe would install only the packages in the last mirror used and there would be a number of things missing from the install (like the cygwin.dll). I did this before I knew that I could just move the entire installed cygwin directory to a different machine. Regarding this set of instructions, http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-06/msg00657.html they seem to be a bit more involved than is necessary. My cygwin install directory is less than 1GB, so what is the need to use tar? I believe that when I last re-installed my current OS, I just copied my cygwin folder to a backup drive and then copied it back to C: after my re-install. Is there some reason why that is a bad idea? LMH > -- > 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 > > -- 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