From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 57318 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2020 20:25:44 -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 57291 invoked by uid 89); 31 Jan 2020 20:25:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=gratz, Gratz, guest, HX-Languages-Length:954 X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 20:25:41 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id xcrCiYi79nCigxcrDiqhy9; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:25:39 -0700 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <424yaEoFi7856Set.1580479568@web03.cms.usa.net> <20200131141305.GC6676@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> <87r1zfqvo2.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 20:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87r1zfqvo2.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 On 2020-01-31 12:21, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ulli Horlacher writes: >>> To a new naked Windows box, if you can "mount" it over the network >> >> No, I cannot do that. My destination Windows hosts are behind firewalls. >> They cannot mount anything. I have to transfer a container file. > > Try a vhdx maybe? Works only on some editions, flavours, features. Format a USB drive as NTFS, copy the Cygwin directory tree verbatim onto that, then copy the Cygwin directory tree verbatim onto the destination system. You should use a common (admin?) owner, and a common (guest?) user if you want to preset a home dir. You could set everything up in a single tree including packages and setup so that you could do reinstalls if required. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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