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, 7 Jan 2003 17:50:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Difficulties to download Cygwin when no Windows machine is available... In-Reply-To: <3E103A17.80306@BFrere.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id h083K5l21719 On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, [ISO-8859-15] Brent Frère wrote: > Cygwin is marvelous. Thank you for maintaining it. It's so powerful to > convince our customers to migrate to open-source software and finally OS... > > I just have to face a problem: I wish to download the entire CygWin > distribution in order to give it to my customers on CDs (a way to > promote your project without having to ask them to download it...) Your > automatic installation procedure is very powerful, however it works only > on Windows-running hosts... (that makes sense, if you wish to use > it...). As professional telecom company, we don't have ANY windows based > host here. So, I have huge difficulties to download the software in > order to write some CD for our customers... > > Could you, as example, refer on your web site some URL so that it could > be possible to download this marvelous project using plain http, ftp or > rsync protocol instead of the Setup.exe tool ? You can also use wget to extract the entire tree from one of the http mirrors. This is what I do and we even discussed this topic on the list some time earlier, so try searching the Cygwin mail archives. Burning to CD is a different topic and there are several options as long as you are willing to drop/remove a few things. > Thank you. -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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/