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Re: Automated Installation on Multiple Machines
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <tennis at cisco dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:34:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: Automated Installation on Multiple Machines
- References: <01d301c47531$7fd99630$1c0a0a0a@amer.cisco.com>
Tennis Smith (tennis) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm installing Cygwin on about 30 different machines at once. I've
already
> installed the basic Cygwin package which was very easy. Unfortunately, I
> need to do much more. All of the PCs need to be identically configured
with
> ssh, telnet and ftp enabled and running as services.
>
> Does anyone have a script or some kind of automated process for doing this
> so that I don't have to do manual installs on all 30 PCs?
Unfortunately there is no automated install.
However, you can avoid the tedious process of manual package selection by
pre-initializing an /etc/setup/installed.db with the following contents:
INSTALLED.DB 2
packagename packagename-0-0.tar.bz2 0
anotherpackagename anotherpackagename-0-0.tar.bz2 0
yetanotherpackagename yetanotherpackagename-0-0.tar.bz2 0
setup.exe will then see these packages as installed at version 0-0, and
'upgrade' them to the current versions without you having to select each
package manually.
Max.
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