RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

["Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>]

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] sent the following at Monday, November 04, 2013 1:28 PM
>Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from
>scratch on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (which contained all the
>requisites of the future machine, including CYGWIN's setup and the
>downloaded directory, as I previously described).

If you want cygwin on an image DVD, just copy an installation to the
disk from which the DVD is made, thereby avoiding setup.  (That is
similar to how I clone my desktop on C: via H: to my laptop - also
on C:.)  Then you just need a script to customize /etc/passwd,
/etc/group, create /home/$user, and maybe re-run some of the scripts
in /etc/postinstall/.

Ideas for updating from a master installation without setup available
upon request.

(I suspect that this method is not supported by this list since setup
is not used.)

Good luck,

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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