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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:30:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Frank B. Brokken" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup / installation via cdrom In-Reply-To: <20021017181011.GA28198@suffix.icce.rug.nl> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Frank B. Brokken wrote: > Hi, > > About once a year I want to reinstall a new version of cygwin. What > I did in the past is download setup.exe/setup.ini and the release/ > directory from a mirror, and install all but the src packages and > setup.* on a CDROM. > > From what I read in the mailing list, this can be a problem if the > release dir. is located immediately at the root of the CD, and so I > created a directory cygwin, below which release was stored. > > However, when I try to install cygwin using setup, telling it to > install from a local directory, in my case e:\cygwin\release, the setup > window shows all packages in the misc set, which is clearly not as it > should be. > > I'm sure I'm overseeing something here, but as I'm overseeing it, I > can't figure out what's going wrong. > > Can anybody help me out? > > Additional info: what I need to have is a possibility to install > cygwin on a computer which is either not connected to the internet or > connected via a slow link. The CDROM helps me to download the > information via a fast-link, burn a CD, and then proceed with the > installation from the CD. However, although this worked well last year, > this year I can't seem to get it right. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance for any assistence I receive, setup.ini should be in e:\cygwin, and you should specify that as your local package directory, not e:\cygwin\release. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- 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/