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RE: Pushing out Cygwin installations


Ah, yes.  Invoke mount!;-)

I hear an echo...

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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At 12:16 PM 1/11/2001, Danko, Gary wrote:
>There was no mount table in my registry. I went into regedit and exported
>the entire Cygnus key from HKLM\Software
>
>When is that created? Is there something I can do to force Cygwin to create
>that key?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:15 AM
>To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
>Cc: gary.danko@akamai.com
>Subject: Re: Pushing out Cygwin installations
>
>
>On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:01:28PM -0500, Danko, Gary wrote:
> >I couldn't find this anywhere in the archives. I want to install Cygwin
>once
> >and push it out to about 150 indentical servers. I tried copying the
> >directory as well as the registry key to another server but that failed to
> >give me the desired results.
> >
> >The NEW installation couldn't find "root" so that made me curious. Where
> >does Cygwin store the information about the location of root?
> >
> >If I install Cygwin on one machine.. How could I copy that installation
> >reliably to another machine?
>
>The mount table is stored in the registry.  You must not have copied
>it correctly.
>
>However, you really should just use "mount" to duplicate the directory
>structure on the other machines.  Copying the registry keys bypasses
>Cygwin and we make no guarantees that the registry keys will remain
>the same between releases.
>
>We do, of course, try to ensure that "mount" and "umount" continue
>to work as expected.
>
>cgf
>
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