Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

[matt rice]

dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries can easily be 
converted into a cygwin installer package..

you need to do 2 things... create a cygwin package and create a hint 
file to install it...

download the cygwin binaries
uncompress them all...
this should convert the cygwin Xfree86 binary into a package usable by 
the installer.... (not that i've tested it)

mkdir -p /tmp/usr/X11R6
mv ./* /tmp/usr
cd /tmp
tar -C /tmp -czvf XPackage.tgz usr

create the setup.hint
the cygwin contributors guide: http://cygwin.com/setup.html

Note: you'll have to install packages from a local directory.



Andrew Markebo wrote:
> | - if all this is not possible, is there anybody out there who has written a 
> | nice installation-skript that installs xfree after cygwin is installed (this 
> | should not be too difficult for the average pupil) and can be edited to 
> | install some software too? If not, I will probably try to write one myself, 
> | but of course I´m not interested in reinventing the wheel...
> 
> The normal Xfree installation is done through a script  
>         [your fav. mirror]/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0/Xinstall.sh
> 
> What to do I think is like throw a selection of the contents (and
> unpacked extract.exe.gz) of
>         [your fav. mirror]/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0/ 
> and I think the students will survive running Xinstall.sh from there in
> their bash window.. 
> 
>         /Andy
>