Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the simpleminded

[Joshua Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>]

I've done it, too. I was working in bit of network
space and wanted the basics of Cygwin without using
much disk space. I used Nullsoft's Free installer,
NSIS:

http://www.nullsoft.com/free/

I decided my "cygwin lite" might possibly be useful
enough for other people to use so I put up a
SourceForge project page.
The stuff is still up there at:

http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/

Basically it just installs a "snapshot" of a full
Cygwin to C:\cygwin and writes the correct registry
entries (if you want it anywhere else, too bad). But,
I also included basic instructions on how to build
your own installer. A warning, though: it's a bit out
of date right now as the newer DLL's took up more
space so that it wouldn't fit on a floppy anymore :(
I was still pondering whether to drop my tiny-vim or
what.

 Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:13:16 -0400 
From: rich-paul@rich-paul.net 
To: Nathan Meyers <nmeyers@javalinux.net> 
CC: cygwin@cygwin.com 
Subject: Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the
simpleminded 


I have done such a thing.  What I use on my
installation server
is a shared drive which contains a copy of bash, a
copy of
cygwin1.dll, a copy of tar, a copy of gzip.exe ( not
gunzip.exe,
tar uses gzip.exe if you do tar -xzf ), a set of
various scripts,
and some tarballs, specificly one for each drive in
our standard
configuration.  The cygwin executables are just
included in the
'd-drive.tgz' tarball, except for the aformentioned
ones.
(Actually, there are redundant copies of those in that
tarball,
as well).


Anyway, I'll make the pertinant parts available to you
if you
wish.  The batch file that starts the whole thing is
called
'monkey.bat', in reference to Lost in Space: "And the
monkey
pushes the button".



On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:48:19AM -0700, Nathan
Meyers wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to deliver a few Cygwin
components (library +
> an app or two) for use with a class I'll be
teaching, and I'm hoping
> to find or build the most foolproof, dummy-proof
delivery possible:
> something requiring the fewest actions and decisions
by the end user.
> 
> What I'm hoping for is something like a combination
of an unzipsfx
> self-installing archive and the Cygwin install
utility - with almost
> all decisions (what to install, where to get the
bits, etc.) 
controlled
> a script or other preconfiguration.
> 
> It looks like the way for me to get there is to hack
together some
> combination of unzip and the Cygwin installer - but
I'm wondering if
> anyone has already created such a beast.
> 
> Nathan Meyers
> nmeyers@javalinux.net
> 
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