Installation question

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Rick Daihl wrote:

> Rather than installing CYGwin and CYGwin/X locally on each  machine, can I run
> from a common network drive?    In this scenario I would have
> several machines running from this drive.    I've already tried this and ran
> into /tmp/XWin.log file not being unique.    I know I'll pay a heavy
> price for hitting the network (that might be an uderstatement).   We are
> replacing Exceed with this package.  Most of our desktops don't have
> enough free space to load the two packages and have anything leftover.

Mount /tmp (and /etc, most likely) locally.  That should take care of the
uniqueness problem.  "man mount" for details.  BTW, you can also mount
individual files (e.g., you can keep a local copy of just /etc/passwd and
/etc/group, and go to the network for everything else).
	Igor
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