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Re: Shared installs
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 08:17 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote:
> >>> How about an FAQ entry:
> >>>
> >>> How do I install Cygwin to share over a network?
> >>>
> >>> Having more than one person to be able to access a single shared
> >>> instance of Cygwin it is not much different than doing a local
> >>> install:
> >>>
> >>> 1) Install to a network drive. Make sure the the drive you pick
> >>> will have the same drive letter for everyone.
> >>> 2) On the machine you used for the install, add the DOS path to
> >>> the cygwin bin to PATH
> >>> 3) Fire up a shell and type
> >>> mount -m > remount.sh
> >>> 4) On every other user's computer, just add the cygwin bin to the
> >>> PATH, execute remount.sh and give them a shortcut to cygwin.bat
> >>
> >> We try to limit FAQ entries to those that are frequently asked.
> >> This one comes up but only once in a while. The idea is if the FAQ
> >> becomes to full of "stuff", it will be too hard for anyone to use. So we
> >> try to keep it at the "manageable" level by using the axiom above. This
> >> would be a reasonable thing to add to the Users Guide IMO. If you're up
> >> to it, skim through and see if you can see a good spot to add it. If you
> >> can create a patch, I'm sure this will get included.
> >>
> >
> >Well, I fired up cvs and tried to grab src/winsup/doc. I ended up with the
> >whole system somehow - thank goodness we are not up on dialup.
> >
> >I figured out what needed modification and made the mods. I then tried
> >firing up the build system to see if I didn't screw things up. ./configure
> >seemed to work ok, but make didn't - no db2html. I searched all the source
> >code (since I had it anyway) but didn't find any files named like db2html
> >nor did I find any entries in any Makefiles to build it.
> >
> >Is there a single search that can be done to figure out in what package
> >db2html might be, so I can download and continue?
>
>
> This is part of docbook but unfortunately there is no Cygwin package for
> docbook (at least not yet, other than the DTD and style-sheets). So you'll
> need to grab docbook-tools (http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/).
Actually, IIRC that site is hopelessly out of date, you're better off grabbing
the docbook-utils source from somewhere else. But that's beside the point,
since to build just the FAQ you don't need DocBook (that's for the User's
Guide). You do need texi2html, in the tetex-bin package. Then go to your build
dir and just type 'make faq0.html' to get the FAQ-in-one-HTML-page.
If you really want a full DocBook install, see the cygwin-doc README for
details about how I do it right now. By the way, cygwin-doc-X.YZ-src also
contains just the DocBook/texinfo source for the documentation, though CVS
is definitely the place for patches to the latest.
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