Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:06:12 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: CD Releases To: Richard Campbell , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <3D5017B5.13743E70@LayerN.COM> In-Reply-To: On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:43:51 -0500 Richard Campbell wrote: > I had a similar problem which I worked around by running setup multiple > times, selecting only a few packages at a time. > "Peter Turner" wrote in message > news:3D5017B5.13743E70@LayerN.COM... > > To whom it may concern... > > > > I've been having problems downloading/installing Cygwin via the normal > > installation procedure (downloading the setup program and let it retrieve > > the necessary data files) > > -- it seems that no matter what server I select, > > it will stop responding at some point during the install, forcing me to start > > all over again. > > > > I was hoping that there with an ISO image I could download and burn onto > > CD for myself, but (from what I gathered) the only CD release available once > > was from Red Hat and was explicitly for support/contracted customers. > > > > So, I guess I'm looking for a suggestion here: is there a site that I can download > > all the files in one tar-ball, or is there an unsupported ISO image out there, > > or is there a recommended (read as "more stable than most") server I should > > install from? You could also install just the bare default plus wget and then use wget to copy the rest to your system. The RCN site is fairly popular. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/