X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48C5F7A3.9020602@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:12:19 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Downloading only and updating on a flash drive problem References: <19383166.post@talk.nabble.com> <48C5CFFF.3080100@cygwin.com> <19384347.post@talk.nabble.com> <48C5F454.8000005@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <48C5F454.8000005@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Reformatted. > > mtdg wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> mtdg wrote: >>>> I downloaded only cygwin to a flash drive. Later when I tried to do >>>> another >>>> download on a different PC it did not find any of the previous download >>>> and >>>> told me I needed everything. >>> Did you point it at the same download directory on the flash drive? Did >>> you >>> select the same mirror? >> Yes, but as I said because the drive letter had changed on the flash >> drive >> is was really a 'different' directory if you see what I mean >> >> i.e. the inital download was to f:\cygwin\download and the second time it >> was to h:\cygwin\download > > It has less to do with where you put the download directory than whether > 'c:\cygwin\etc\setup' exists and is populated. If you move to a new > machine, most likely this directory (structure) doesn't exist and, even > if it does, it's likely to be different than the first machine. The moral > of the story? Looks like I fat-fingered that one. I mistyped the download directory in my test after deleting the 'cygwin' directory. I actually see no difference regardless of the location of the download directory or whether the 'cygwin' directory hierarchy exists. So it WJFFM. My pointer to the FAQ entry is still an important consideration though. If you want mirror semantics, you really want to use a mirroring tool like 'wget' or 'curl' or something. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/