Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <00e701c0c881$ed4f2fa0$173b243f@ca.boeing.com> From: "Michael A. Chase" To: Cc: "Cygwin Users" References: <20010417022900.A32126@monster.master-link.org> <3ADC35C3.6E74852E@yahoo.com> <00c101c0c777$33330070$68e6bfa8@ca.boeing.com> <20010418232505.A3328@monster.master-link.org> Subject: Re: Mass deployment Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:35:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Interspersed. -- Mac :}) Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Michael A. Chase" Cc: "Cygwin Users" ; "Earnie Boyd" Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:25 PM Subject: Re: Mass deployment > The workability of this solution implies (I think) that I could do the > following and have it work: > 1) Do an install of those packages I want on a single machine. > 2) tar czf mycyg.tgz cygwin > 3) regedit and dump keys from the registry file into a .reg file I'd dump the keys before creating the archive so the .reg file can be inside the archive. > 4) For each machine I am installing to: > 4a) tar -xzf mycyg.tgz ( to the same root location ) It might be a good idea to remove the old Cygwin tree before laying down a new one. You can use untgz.exe in systems that don't already have Cygwin installed. A self-extracting file using Info-Zip might also be useful though the file would be bigger. > 4b) cmd /c start regedit cygwin.reg If you run it from a DOS prompt, you don't need the cmd /c and it will work under Win9x too. > 4c) prey I thought you were trying to help your remote users, not subsist on them... -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple