Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/10/11:11:34
Since none of this is really specific to Cygwin/X, I've redirected this
thread to the main cygwin list.
I'll take a stab at a few of these, but there are parts I am not
sure of either.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> I had a disk disaster over the week-end, a disk 'optimiser' made my
> 160Gb main drive very optimal by wiping it completely. I was fairly
> well backed up etc. but it takes a while to get everything back to
> normality.
>
Yep. My 160Gb main drive in a brand new Dell box died in less than a
month. I had just got the box up and configured, but I had no backups yet
:(. So, I sympathsize.
> I found re-installing cygwin and cygwin/X a bit confusing so would
> appreciate some comments and help.
>
> I had all the ftp'ed files left from installing cygwin previously
> sitting in a directory on a networded drive, could I have used these
> to re-install cygwin rather than downloading everything again? If so,
> how does one do it?
>
Yes. Choose "Install from Local Directory" instead of "Install from
Internet", and point setup there. Keep in mind, however, you would have
missed out on all the new and exciting updates :).
> There are a number of different directories, one for each FTP site I've
> used.
>
This is the part I am not sure how to handle.
> As it was I chose an FTP site (the last one I had used I think) and
> re-downloaded from there, or did I? If I accept defaults does it just
> download only the files which have been updated and install the rest
> from the previously downloaded files on disk.
>
I think it uses the "Local Package Directory" that it prompted you for as
a cache. So, I think the answer is yes.
> I really find the window where you select what to download, etc.
> *very* confusing, some of the wording is very odd. Two examples from
> the User's Guide which I find difficult to understand are:-
>
> You can change setup.exe's view style, which is helpful if you know
> the name of a package you want to install but not which category it is
> in. Click on the View button and it will rotate between Category (the
> default), Full (all packages), and Partial (only packages to be
> upgraded). If you are familiar with Unix, you will probably want to at
> east glance through the Full listing for your favorite tools.
>
> So what does 'Partial' mean? I can see that Category means all
> packages sorted into types, Full means all in alphabetical order but
> what does Partial mean? Does it mean only display packages that I've
> got already?
>
I found it confusing at first too :).
No, it is more of a view of what is to come ie. the packages that you or
it have selected to upgrade/install. Does that help?
> ... and the second (and more confusing for me) bit is:-
>
> Once you have an existing Cygwin installation, the setup.exe chooser
> is also used to manage your Cygwin installation. Information on
> installed packages is kept in the /etc/setup/ directory of your Cygwin
> installation; if setup.exe cannot find this directory it will act just
> like you had no Cygwin installation. If setup.exe finds a newer
> version of an installed package available, it will automatically mark
> it to be upgraded. To Uninstall, Reinstall, or get the Source for an
> existing package, click on Keep to toggle it. Also, to avoid the need
> to reboot after upgrading, make sure to close all Cygwin windows and
> stop all Cygwin processes before setup.exe begins to install the
> upgraded package.
>
> What on earth does "To Uninstall, Reinstall, or get the Source for an
> existing package, click on Keep to toggle it.", mean???
>
Did you try it? Clicking on Keep transitions it to Uninstall, Reinstall,
Source, etc.
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