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Re: preconfigured(customized) cygwin install possible?


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:36:18AM +0100, Herman wrote:
>I need to rollout an cygwin install with some customized default
>settings and i was wondering if its possible to install cygwin
>preconfigured? 
>
>What I had in mind is an cygwin configuration that runs sshd default and
>together with an autorized_keys file. And rsync has to be installed. Its
>to much pain to configure cygwin on every machine. 
>
>Maybe its needed to hack the cygwin installer? I was actually hoping
>there was some feature for a customized install but i couldn't find
>anything about it in the cygwin FAQ or in the mailing list archive. 
>
>As you might have guessed the goal is to easily back up multiple
>machines. Maybe i'm just thinking in the wrong direction.

There is very little magic here.

Cygwin is mainly just a bunch of files on disk.

If you back up your c:\cygwin (or whatever) you are most of the way
there.

In addition, you need to mediate on the documentatio for the "mount"
command, paying attention to the "-m" option and the mkpasswd and the
mkgroup command.

If you are installing services, you will need to install them on every
system that you copy this to.
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