Sharing pear installation between W2K & RH8 -> Install PEAR from W2K

Hi PEAR'ers I'd like to share my installation of PEAR between Windows 2000 and Red Hat 8 for testing purposes - as far as my intuition goes that should be possible since PEAR is "nothing but .php files" - am I correct here? Assuming I am indeed correct another question arises: My Windows installation of PHP is in c:\Program Files\PHP and I want to install PEAR in z:\php\pear where z: is a partition being shared between the two OS's. Since PEAR is not included in the Windows distribution of PHP4.3.1 and I haven't yet installed Red Hat 8 I need to install pear manually from Windows. This is where my problems begin - And from the other msgs in this group I can tell I'm not the only one! How should I install PEAR to the Z-drive using Windows!!?? Even thought I've been using PEAR for ½-1 year I haven't yet succeded in doing a simple complete installation of PEAR but still have to individually download the packages and unpack them to the proper place - very slow procedure indeed...