Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/03/02/14:01:38
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:23:43AM -0800, Merek Thorondursson wrote:
>Using setup.exe for a different computer
>Tuesday March 02, 2010
>
>I have looked through the FAQ's and archives for a solution
>to my problem, but have gotten hopelessly lost and cannot
>find anyone with the same problem. The closest I found was
>a (rather interesting) 2003 post about a CD installation.
>
>I use two computers. The one which is connected to the
>Internet is a Windows 98 Second Edition machine. The one
>on which I hope to use Cygwin uses Windows XP Pro with SP2.
>
>The setup.exe file I downloaded matches the Cygwin 1.7.x
>installation, which is what I want. However, the machine
>I use to access the Internet is greeted with the error
>message that Cygwin 1.7 doesn't run on Windows 95, 98 or ME
>and suggests that I use an older 1.5 version.
>
>I anticipate that setup.exe looks at the local operating
>system prior to searching for/retrieving packages. I don't
>want to use an older 1.5 Cygwin on my XP box. It has no
>Internet connection, so I can't use it to fetch the packages.
>
>I got the impression that setup.exe would download files
>which could later be installed, and I planned to carry those
>from this machine to that one via a USB flash drive.
>
>What operation am I missing that will allow me to use this
>Windows 98 SE machine to retrieve packages for 1.7?
Sorry, but right now it isn't possible to use setup.exe to do this.
It's a hard error at the beginning of the program if you try to access a
1.7.x version of Cygwin on an ancient version of Windows.
In theory, you could probably just manually download the Cygwin
setup.ini and release directory from a mirror site but I don't know
what gotchas there are there.
cgf
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