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Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort


On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:48:01AM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Either that or something like (untested):
>> 
>>     mkdir c:\cygwin
>>     cd c:\cygwin
>>     c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/cygwin-*.tar.bz2
>>     mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin /
>>     mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>>     mount -f -s -x -b c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>>     c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/bash-*.tar.bz2
>>     bin/bash
>>     for f in /cygdrive/c/whereever/*.tar.bz2; do
>> 	case "$f" in
>> 	    cygwin-*)	;;
>> 	    bash-*)	;;
>> 	    *) /cygdrive/c/whereever/tar xjf $f ;;
>> 	esac
>>     done
>>     cd /etc/postinstall
>>     for f in *.sh; do /bin/sh ./$f; done
>>     for f in *.bat; do cmd /c .\\$f; done
>>     exit
>
>I've been looking for this script. Come to papa! ;-)
>
>Won't this leave out the necessary updates to the registry? Or does mount
>take care of that?

Of course mount takes care of that.  'mount' predates setup.exe by many
years.  There is nothing magic in what setup.exe does.

cgf

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