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RE: Pushing out Cygwin installations


At 12:41 PM 1/11/2001, Danko, Gary wrote:
>Okay let me get this straight. :)
>
>Got a plain vanilla install.  Copy the Cygwin directory to the new server.
>Create the mount points and I am done?


Yup.


>Do I need to copy HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions ???


Nope.


>Oh, I tried to run mount.. Here's what happened.
>
>bash-2.04$ pwd
>/cygwin/bin
>bash-2.04$ ./mount
>Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>bash-2.04$ ./mount d:\cygwin /
>./mount: /: Invalid argument


user-error.  Don't forget that \ is an escape character in Cygwin, just like
in UNIX.


>bash-2.04$
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:38 AM
>To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
>Cc: gary.danko@akamai.com
>Subject: Re: Pushing out Cygwin installations
>
>
>If you have a mount table, you have registry entries.
>
>However, did you read my email?  Don't use the registry.  Use mount.
>
>You're going to have to run 'regedit' to import stuff.  Don't run
>regedit.  Create a .bat file to run mount.
>
>cgf
>
>On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:16:49PM -0500, Danko, Gary wrote:
> >There was no mount table in my registry. I went into regedit and exported
> >the entire Cygnus key from HKLM\Software
> >
> >When is that created? Is there something I can do to force Cygwin to create
> >that key?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:15 AM
> >To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> >Cc: gary.danko@akamai.com
> >Subject: Re: Pushing out Cygwin installations
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:01:28PM -0500, Danko, Gary wrote:
> >>I couldn't find this anywhere in the archives. I want to install Cygwin
> >once
> >>and push it out to about 150 indentical servers. I tried copying the
> >>directory as well as the registry key to another server but that failed to
> >>give me the desired results.
> >>
> >>The NEW installation couldn't find "root" so that made me curious. Where
> >>does Cygwin store the information about the location of root?
> >>
> >>If I install Cygwin on one machine.. How could I copy that installation
> >>reliably to another machine?
> >
> >The mount table is stored in the registry.  You must not have copied
> >it correctly.
> >
> >However, you really should just use "mount" to duplicate the directory
> >structure on the other machines.  Copying the registry keys bypasses
> >Cygwin and we make no guarantees that the registry keys will remain
> >the same between releases.
> >
> >We do, of course, try to ensure that "mount" and "umount" continue
> >to work as expected.
> >
> >cgf
> >
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