Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/06/26/22:52:10
On 18 Jun, To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
> The mirror is 1.2Gb, and I wanted to just write a copy of the install
> set to take home. So my idea was to choose "download from internet",
> and burn that.
>
> Trouble is, that option results in a 1Mb download (I think all it does
> is download setup.exe).
Fergus replied:
> Even a "Download from Internet" will only download what you need. If your
> machine has an up-to-date Cygwin installation then you don't need anything
> and so nothing (except the current setup.ini) will be downloaded.
>
> There are ways of downloading an installation set that involve temporarily
> blinding Windows to your installed Cygwin. Not difficult. Discussed on the
> mailing list at various times ... can be more specific if you want.
>
> Fergus
Yes, please, Fergus, I would like to know. Even knowing a Subject line
to search for in the archive would be fine.
luke
PS:
Apologies for not following up on this staright away.
I only just found the reply, because I only recently (partly) worked out
what caused all list mail to me from Cygwin to be dumped to /dev/null,
starting about a month ago. So I only just now visited the archive to
see if anyone had replied. :-(
(The cause seems related to file size limits that can hit cat when
appending to a large file.)
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