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 Message-ID: <40CD7763.7030504@luukku.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:01:07 +0300 From: Jani tiainen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7a (Windows/20040612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: installing cygwin on private lan References: <061420040629.17984.40CD45D2000CCBE20000464022007481840E970104960E08@comcast.net> <40CD481A.2060503@luukku.com> In-Reply-To: <40CD481A.2060503@luukku.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Jani tiainen wrote: > hazloya@comcast.net wrote: > > [Snip] > >> So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate >> the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin? > > > Cygwin needs still Windows environment, not DOS environment. And for > Linux and Windows co-operation you could use NetBIOS (Samba on Linux side). > > For further information refer Linux documentation about Samba server, > and accessing network shares for Windows machine. Of course there is possibly option to use WINE, don't know does it work tough... -- Jani Tiainen -- 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/