Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

[Chris Taylor]

Brett Serkez wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>Not particularly, assuming you use the same local package cache on
>>each machine, especially if you use the trick for pulling in all the
>>packages you want automatically.
> 
> 
> Right.
> 
> 
>>I don't know about chere,
> 
> 
> chere must have settings in the registry, as it adds a 'bash here' menu
> option in explorer when you right click on a directory.  You'd have to
> run 'chere -i' on the new system.

Ah. See below.

> 
> 
>>That means that setup, services like sshd, cron, inetd, etcetera will
>>be available for installation.
> 
> 
> Right, available for installation, you'd have to run the setup scripts.
> I suppose running ssh-host-config wouldn't be a bad idea, not only would
> it install the Windows sshd service on the new system, but it would
> generate unique host keys, otherwise both the new and old systems would
> have the same key.
> 
> Sounds like this is doable, but there may be a series of commands that
> need to be run, depending on the original installation.
> 

You don't want to be copying a setup where you've already installed ssh 
or such things imo, though you could do.

Given that you already have to run a script to set up the mount points, 
there's no reason why you couldn't extend it to install sshd and any 
other services you wanted/needed...
Hell, you could even wrap the entire thing in a .cmd/.bat script in 
order to automate it entirely.. (Assuming ssh-host-config and other 
similar scripts have a non-interactive mode..)

Chris
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