Re: Shared installs

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 12:43 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>> At 08:17 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote:
>> >>> How about an FAQ entry:
>> >>>
>> >>> How do I install Cygwin to share over a network?
>> >>>
>> >>> Having more than one person to be able to access a single shared
>> >>> instance of Cygwin it is not much different than doing a local
>> >>> install:
>> >>>
>> >>> 1) Install to a network drive. Make sure the the drive you pick
>> >>> will have the same drive letter for everyone.
>> >>> 2) On the machine you used for the install, add the DOS path to
>> >>> the cygwin bin to PATH
>> >>> 3) Fire up a shell and type
>> >>> mount -m > remount.sh
>> >>> 4) On every other user's computer, just add the cygwin bin to the
>> >>> PATH, execute remount.sh and give them a shortcut to cygwin.bat
>> >>
>> >> We try to limit FAQ entries to those that are frequently asked.
>> >> This one comes up but only once in a while.  The idea is if the FAQ
>> >> becomes to full of "stuff", it will be too hard for anyone to use.  So we
>> >> try to keep it at the "manageable" level by using the axiom above.  This
>> >> would be a reasonable thing to add to the Users Guide IMO.  If you're up
>> >> to it, skim through and see if you can see a good spot to add it.  If you
>> >> can create a patch, I'm sure this will get included.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Well, I fired up cvs and tried to grab src/winsup/doc. I ended up with the
>> >whole system somehow - thank goodness we are not up on dialup.
>> >
>> >I figured out what needed modification and made the mods. I then tried
>> >firing up the build system to see if I didn't screw things up. ./configure
>> >seemed to work ok, but make didn't - no db2html. I searched all the source
>> >code (since I had it anyway) but didn't find any files named like db2html
>> >nor did I find any entries in any Makefiles to build it.
>> >
>> >Is there a single search that can be done to figure out in what package
>> >db2html might be, so I can download and continue?
>> 
>> 
>> This is part of docbook but unfortunately there is no Cygwin package for
>> docbook (at least not yet, other than the DTD and style-sheets).  So you'll
>> need to grab docbook-tools (http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/).  
>
>Actually, IIRC that site is hopelessly out of date, you're better off grabbing
>the docbook-utils source from somewhere else.  But that's beside the point,
>since to build just the FAQ you don't need DocBook (that's for the User's
>Guide). You do need texi2html, in the tetex-bin package.  Then go to your build
>dir and just type 'make faq0.html' to get the FAQ-in-one-HTML-page.


Actually, I had said that this wasn't really FAQ fodder at this point but
suggested that it would fit in the User's Guide.


>If you really want a full DocBook install, see the cygwin-doc README for 
>details about how I do it right now. By the way, cygwin-doc-X.YZ-src also 
>contains just the DocBook/texinfo source for the documentation, though CVS
>is definitely the place for patches to the latest.


Actually, I'm not sure that the OP wants a full DocBook install but given
my comments, he was following the path that lead him there. ;-)


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