From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 65959 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2018 17:09:11 -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 65948 invoked by uid 89); 25 Nov 2018 17:09:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*t-online.de, schrieb, H*M:online, H*r:sk:mailout X-HELO: mailout07.t-online.de Received: from mailout07.t-online.de (HELO mailout07.t-online.de) (194.25.134.83) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:09:03 +0000 Received: from fwd12.aul.t-online.de (fwd12.aul.t-online.de [172.20.26.241]) by mailout07.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 23FDE4229122 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:09:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.178.24] (TDWd0aZO8hJYVxEOjlTvrD1WKB5GcLvBkUj+U6x59efrVZAlMWnyA6J5DKKoCYXZvY@[217.246.156.193]) by fwd12.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1gQxtz-1rEJf60; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:08:59 +0100 Subject: Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20181125143854.GA20164@ingber.com> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <8d846c46-bfc4-7841-2ba7-1b354a9763bf@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:09:00 -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: <20181125143854.GA20164@ingber.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-11/txt/msg00173.txt.bz2 Am 25.11.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Lester Ingber: > I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad > to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my > old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . > cd c:/ > tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar & > Then e:/cygwin64.tar would be mounted on my new computer. You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has no 'tar' to unpack that file. > I'm assuming that there is not actual install required, e.g., having to > run setup-x86_64.exe first on the new computer? That assumption is incorrect. If your in-house network really is so significantly faster than outside internet that this makes a difference, what you can usefully copy over from one machine to the other would be setup.exe's package cache directory tree. Other than that, there's really no workable short cut compared to simply running setup. -- 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