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Re: Installation question
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Rick Daihl <daihlr at agcs dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:52:49 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Installation question
- References: <4016A4A5.8BE8783D@agcs.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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