install from install files?

Sat Aug 1 07:29:00 GMT 2009

> > Is there some way I can re-create one big setup.ini file from my current
> > computer, and just have setup use that on the new computer ?
>>  Yes.  The information about which packages you actually have installed lives
> in /etc/setup/installed.db.  If you copy over the installed.db from the old
> machine to the new one (in the correct place where it's going to live in the
> eventual new cygwin installation, i.e. C:\cygwin\etc\setup\installed.db if
> you're going to install to C:\cygwin), run setup.exe, tell it to install from
> the local package dir that you've already copied across and on the chooser page
> click 'reinstall' at the top level of the package tree view, it should then
> install the same set of packages.

Excellent tip - thank you DaveK.. I will use this one.
Rob
:)

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