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: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:31:53 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation from locally stored packages Message-ID: <20031126183153.GD8993@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <008e01c3b42c$4edb9540$740e10ac@uk.circle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008e01c3b42c$4edb9540$740e10ac@uk.circle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08PM -0000, Vince Hoffman wrote: >Actualy at least 1/2 of the mirror sites allow downloading via FTP. >(and some via rsync too) I'm sure that it is much more than 1/2 but it doesn't matter anyway. Just use wget or curl to download the files. >if you know what you are doing and keep the directory structure its >entirely possible. have a google on site:cygwin.com cygwin install >from cd or similar to find previous discussions. Right. The initial poster couldn't have searched too hard if they couldn't find this since it seems to come up every couple of weeks. cgf -- 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/