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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Bare minimum packages to DL for install? Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:42:22 -0400 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <39117.199.169.240.132.1061584070.squirrel@svr1.turboweb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <39117.199.169.240.132.1061584070.squirrel@svr1.turboweb.net> I believe the min is the default. waxmop@sarcastic-horse.com wrote: > Hi -- > > > I have an unreliable internet connection, so I can't use the internet > install with setup.exe. I am trying to install cygwin after first > downloading the packages, but there are way too many for me to download > all of them. > > I have two questions: > > What is the bare minimum of packages I need to install to get bash working? > > Is it possible to install and add packages afterwards, like if I want to > try out stuff later? > > Thanks for the help. > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/