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Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:48:01AM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Either that or something like (untested):
>>
>> mkdir c:\cygwin
>> cd c:\cygwin
>> c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/cygwin-*.tar.bz2
>> mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin /
>> mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>> mount -f -s -x -b c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>> c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/bash-*.tar.bz2
>> bin/bash
>> for f in /cygdrive/c/whereever/*.tar.bz2; do
>> case "$f" in
>> cygwin-*) ;;
>> bash-*) ;;
>> *) /cygdrive/c/whereever/tar xjf $f ;;
>> esac
>> done
>> cd /etc/postinstall
>> for f in *.sh; do /bin/sh ./$f; done
>> for f in *.bat; do cmd /c .\\$f; done
>> exit
>
>I've been looking for this script. Come to papa! ;-)
>
>Won't this leave out the necessary updates to the registry? Or does mount
>take care of that?
Of course mount takes care of that. 'mount' predates setup.exe by many
years. There is nothing magic in what setup.exe does.
cgf
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