Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/30/14:14:26
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 01:28 PM 5/30/2002, Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG wrote:
> >A simple and crude method that appear to work for me for creating a Cygwin
> >install CD for non-networked or classified (gulp) machines.
> >(Warning, this is crude and takes some connect time. It involves less
> >clicks though!)
> >
> >(1) I use explorer to go to the ftp side of my favorite mirror house.
> >(2) I download the contents of the release directory into a release
> > directory in my cygtemp directory.
> >(3) Once (2) is done, I copy setup.exe and setup.ini into my
> > cygtemp directory.
> >(4) I burn the Cygtemp directory to CD. I have been able to do
> > incremental (not full) setups on machines running setup.exe
> > from the CD.
> >
> >Again, this is crude, and takes some time (mostly unattended).
> >The process (2) downloads everything, including source, so
> >you end up downloading over 500 megabytes.
> >
> >I do find that when the ftp process dies (and it always does at
> >some point for me), I find it fairly easy to see where it died,
> >and restart it where it left off. (Funny note, after one of these
> >restarts this morning, thje first estimate on download time
> >was 1 day, 10 hours.....next was 5 minutes)
> >
> >Crude and unrefined, but it seems to work, and its easy
> >to say "get everything", even for an IQ challenged Ph.D.
>
> You might like wget then, if you get lots of disconnections. It can
> reconnect automatically and pick up where it left off. A great time
> saver for the highly automated! ;-)
Or get a copy of 'fget' (an FTP version of wget). I run this nightly
against a mirror to keep my image of Cygwin up to date. The nice thing
about fget is it validates date & size of already downloaded files and
skips them, thus only new or changed files actually get pulled. I've
been thinging of packaging it for Cygwin, but I haven't had the time
lately.
> Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
> 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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