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From:	"Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: installing cygwin on private lan
Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:11:54 +0200
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> From: hazloya@!!!!!!!.net
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:30 AM

> I would like to install Cygwin on a DOS box that doesn't have an
> Internet connection but that does have a network connection to a Linux
> box.  The Linux box is dual-homed (Internet and the private lan) but
> does not route between the two networks.  It does export a filesystem
> to the DOS box.  If I could populate the Linux filesystem with the
> Cygwin packages then I could use setup.exe's
> "Install from Local Directory." option on the DOS box.  But I've been
> unable to find a Linux version of setup.exe which I would use to
> populate the Linux filesystem via the "Download from Internet" option.
>
> So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate
> the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin?

I'm not sure this can be run on the Linux-machine,
but anyway; clean_setup from http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/
has some sort of mechanism to get the packages via e.g. wget.
(I have yet to try it out myself)

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E             --76-->

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