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


On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org> wrote:
>
> I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*".  Run setup
> --help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its
> command line options into setup.log.full.  Play with running it using
> them on a previously prepared local download directory, with
> non-default packages included either by changing setup.ini to add
> "Base" to their category or adding a dummy mirror directory with a
> setup.ini having a dummy package that has category Base and requires
> the other packages you want.

I see: this functionality is in development and therefore is well hidden
for the moment.   It's a shame that it's not clearly documented .


setup --help     displays  nothing for me
I suspect this is a cmd.exe or win2000   - related problem ,
because i have seen the same happening with other programs as well
(namely qemu).


Adrian Maier

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