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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:04:30 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:49:28PM -0700, Joshua Franklin wrote:
>Read my post again.  I was working on less than 10MB network space.
>The installer fits on a floppy.  It's basically just the dll, ash,
>bash, and a few shell-utils so that somebody can figure out what cygwin
>looks like without having to do the big download.  Doesn't even use
>full packages.  It would be pointless to put that kind of minimal
>functionality into setup.exe

Copy setup.exe, a modified setup.ini, and whatever other packages you
need.  You can create your own distribution.

setup.exe just reads a simple ascii file and straight tar files.

It sounds like you wouldn't even have to modify sources to do
what you want.

cgf

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