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Christopher Faylor wrote in <20020428223000 DOT GB13849 AT redhat DOT com> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:30:00 -0400: > If you're on the other end of a slow connection and are apt to be > disconnected every couple of hours, you will *never* be able to do a > complete install since the setup.exe will start from scratch every time > you reconnect. It doesn't matter if you chose "download from internet" or > not since setup.exe will only consider what's installed when considering > what to download. That just seems like a bug to me. Thanks. Even something like the XFree86 "basic" install can take a long time, let alone trying to install everything in one hit. Sometimes people forget that there are many still out there on creaky old dial-up connections. > If I have this right then even removing download from internet does not > eliminate this problem. No, it makes it worse. > So, I think the right answer to this is the standard one "patches > gratefully accepted". I'll look but I'm making no promises! ;-D -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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