Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-21 Thread Jim Easton
Hi Corinna, On Jun 20 02:58, Jim Easton wrote: Question: is /proc implemented and I just haven't figured out how to install it? Did you try $ cd /proc $ ls -l before asking? Oh Dear! I tried: cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin cd proc For which I received the message: bash: cd: proc:

Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-21 Thread Shankar Unni
Jim Easton wrote: cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin cd proc For which I received the message: bash: cd: proc: No such file or directory Of course. As you surmised, these two are *NOT* the same. The literal path /proc (and /dev) are treated specially. Unlike on linux, mount is not modifying the kernel

Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-20 Thread Jim Easton
Hi Igor, Tell me; In case things go wrong, to recover my present configuration is it sufficient to simply restore /cygdrive/c/cygwin and /cygdrive/c/cygwin.disk or is there something more subtle going on. If you didn't change the mounts, it should be sufficient to restore c:\cygwin. I

Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 02:58, Jim Easton wrote: Question: is /proc implemented and I just haven't figured out how to install it? Did you try $ cd /proc $ ls -l before asking? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader

Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-19 Thread Jim Easton
Hi Igor 1) using windows read installed.db into my documents 2) the version numbers were already set to zero. Whup. Stop right here. When you say the version numbers were already set to zero, you don't mean those extra zeroes at the end of each line, do you? Because if you do, that

Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-19 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jim Easton wrote: Hi Igor 1) using windows read installed.db into my documents 2) the version numbers were already set to zero. Whup. Stop right here. When you say the version numbers were already set to zero, you don't mean those extra zeroes at the end of

RE: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-18 Thread Jim Easton
Hi, Tue, 16 May 2006 I wrote: Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with me (eg. on a disk) to someone else's machine, both running windows XP, whereby I could get setup to download the same cygwin components that are on my machine? Wed, 17 May 2006 I wrote: I

RE: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Jim Easton wrote: Hi, Tue, 16 May 2006 I wrote: Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with me (eg. on a disk) to someone else's machine, both running windows XP, whereby I could get setup to download the same cygwin components that are on

RE: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Jim Easton wrote: Hi, Tue, 16 May 2006 I wrote: Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with me (eg. on a disk) to someone else's machine, both running windows XP, whereby I could get setup to

Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Easton
Hi Igor, Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. Oops - sorry. Some people prefer it :-( Does not include me actually. It gets a little hard to follow if it's not consistent. On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jim Easton wrote: From: Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-05-17 Thread Jim Easton
Hi Dave, Thank you for the suggestion. Correct me if I'm wrong but I take it that that would be the stuff in cygwin.disk? I should clarify. I have no problem with loading new versions of things, what I was after was a way of priming setup with the list of names at the Select packages step. I

RE: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-05-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jim Easton wrote: From: Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. On 16 May 2006 09:20, Jim Easton wrote: Hi, Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with

setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-05-16 Thread Jim Easton
Hi, Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with me (eg. on a disk) to someone else's machine, both running windows XP, whereby I could get setup to download the same cygwin components that are on my machine? Thank you. Jim -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-05-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 May 2006 09:20, Jim Easton wrote: Hi, Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with me (eg. on a disk) to someone else's machine, both running windows XP, whereby I could get setup to download the same cygwin components that are on my machine? How about the