From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13991 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2002 19:46:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13906 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2002 19:46:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uemail02.evansville.edu) (192.195.225.16) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2002 19:46:09 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: How to install packages... Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Richardson, Tony" To: , X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg01002.txt.bz2 I guess that you could untar everything appropriately, but you'd need to run the post-install scripts. Instead of that I installed on one machine and then copied everything over to a network share. This allows Cygwin to be run from any machine on the network without doing an install on the local machine. Setup also creates the proper mounts. To get around that I have the user click on a shortcut that points to a batch file containing: call \\cecsfp\cygwin\scripts\mkusrmnts 2> nul: \\cecsfp\cygwin\bin\rxvt -tn xterm -e /bin/bash --login -i where mkusrmnts is another batch file that sets up all of the required mount points correctly. (All as user mounts so that no special privileges are required.) I also modified /etc/profile to mount /home over a cygwin subdirectory in the user's Windows HOMEPATH. To get X to run correctly I found that I had to mount /tmp over a tmp subdirectory under their cygwin subdirectory. Now students can get a Cygwin session or start up an X windows session from any Windows machine on our campus. Everything seems to work fine. (I've been wondering recently whether each user needs their own /var mount also. I need to find out which programs write to /var.) I'd be happy to send anyone who is interested the mkusrmnts.bat and profile files that make this work. The network share is a mirror of the cygwin install on my machine. After I update my machine I user rsync to update the network share (excluding the /home, /tmp, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, /usr/tmp and /usr/var directories and a few files in /etc). Tony Richardson > From: Brian Keener >=20 > As a side note to what Chris wrote: >=20 > How did you install Cygwin without using the setup program?=20=20 > Does it work? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/