Batch installation, possibly without setup.exe?

[fergus]

 > I'm not sure why 'setup.exe' would take significantly longer to
 > install than a copy when it comes to putting it on a USB drive
 > (never tried it).
 > Obviously, you'd skip the download part and install from a
 > previously downloaded local directory of packages (that got created
 > when you installed Cygwin on the source machine).

Yes, the time taken isn't in the downloading but in the writing to the 
USB device. I think this is a feature of Windows' management of the 
activity, however it's contrived (whether setup or copy or unzip). I 
wrote to the flash drive manufacturer with a sheaf of time stats, 
moaning about the geological duration of minor tasks. They replied, 
That's normal.

On the other hand, if (as I intended to make clear but didn't) you 
devolve the task to Linux with

     cp -vr /host /target # or equivalent

then the whole thing absolutely flies along, the blue light flashing on 
the target device like a cop car, and the file audit screaming up the 
screen too fast even to count the pages. I reckon 160,000 files / 3.6G 
in less than an hour (I've got a lot under /home/). Quite what holds 
Windows up, I can't think. It would be easier to hew the files out of 
granite.

Fergus


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