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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov>
Subject:  Re: Creating Cygwin CD or DVD
Date:  Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:39:28 -0400
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> There seem to be occasional postings on this mailing-list (e.g. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00026.html, http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00343.html) about creating .iso images for installing Cygwin on machines not connected to the Net.
> 
> I have been developing a utility to help create customized subsets of Cygwin packages, which can be burned onto cdrom or dvd and used for installing or updating machines without any network connection. When given a list of Cygwin package names, the program downloads them and their dependencies, and regenerates a 'setup.ini' file together with a copy of 'setup.exe'.
> 
> The package is called 'pmcyg' (short for Cygwin Partial Mirror), and is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmcyg. There are still a few rough edges, but I hope the program will be of use and interest to some readers.

Thanks, this is a nice contribution to the project.

Not sure if the Cygwin webmasters would be interested in linking to your
project.  I think the usual way to spread the word about external Cygwin-related
projects is just through the mailing lists.  Your best bet is to regularly
announce new versions here, so people can find mention of it in the archives.

Andrew.


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