Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:22:18 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setting up cygwin Message-ID: <20020131192218.GK7966@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020131183628.28860.qmail@web14205.mail.yahoo.com> <102201c1aa8b$e3d1d440$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <102201c1aa8b$e3d1d440$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:17:13AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >From: "Ling F. Zhang" > >> In short, if I want everything in minimal effort (I >> don't want to go through all of them and click >> retrieve and select the source), what should I do? > >Use a mirroring tool, not setup.exe. Setup.exe is designed for >installing cygwin, not making mirrors of everything. Bingo. People seem to be fixating on setup.exe when there are other tools that are probably more appropriate. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/