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Re: Installation question
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Rick Daihl <daihlr at agcs dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:05:10 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Installation question
- References: <4016A4A5.8BE8783D@agcs.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.
>
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q3/msg00997.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00165.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=shared%20network%20install%20site%3Acygwin.com
etc.
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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
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