Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <01C104BE.DCCF1220.jorgens@coho.net> From: Steve Jorgensen Reply-To: "jorgens AT coho DOT net" To: "Cygwin List (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Correct way to do full download to system with existing install Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 19:23:52 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, since I'm new to this and experimenting, I've done things every which way, so it's hard to know what download directory on my system matches the installation (if any). It sounds like what I should do is pick one system to be the one I always get the update from and one directory on the system to keep it in, always use the "Download from Internet" mode when getting updates over the Internet, then update my installation from the download. This way, I can always be sure what's in my download directory is consistent. -----Original Message----- From: Randall R Schulz [SMTP:rrschulz AT cris DOT com] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 7:12 PM To: jorgens AT coho DOT net; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Correct way to do full download to system with existing install Steve, Just use Setup in the "Download from Internet" mode, selecting your favorite mirror. Then burn the resulting directory hierarchy. Put Setup.exe at the top level of the directory you copy to the CD. This will give you a self-contained installation base. The "Download from Internet" mode is incremental, downloading only what is necessary to bring the local installation files up-to-date w.r.t. the chosen mirror, assuming you don't discard those files after installation. But then, if you were doing that, you'd probably just use the "Install from Internet" option, right? Note, too, that Setup will install (in "Install from Local Directory") from any locally accessible directory, including a file on a network share. I used to use this ability to maintain a local copy of the latest Cygwin install files that all the other Cygwin users at my office could access, via Windows file sharing, to install and update their own Cygwin installations. I did this in part to be sure what version they were all using, since I had to support them, and also to minimize the load on the Cygwin mirrors. Furthermore, if you know how, you can perform a similar incremental update of your install CD. I'd give you more specific instructions, but I recently had to re-install Windows, and I have not yet re-installed Easy CD Creator, and I hesitate to try to give details from memory. Randall Schulz At 18:32 2001-07-04, Steve Jorgensen wrote: >I checked the FAQ first. > >Sometimes, I may need to do a full download, burn to CD, then install on >another system. If I use Setup, and download only, it seems to be missing >anything that doesn't need to be updated on the system I run setup from. > >If I just download everything from an FTP mirror including setup.ini, will >I be able to install from local drive using that download? What about >using that to update an existing install? > >Perhaps, to make this obvious/easy, there should be a sub-option under >download to ignore the state of any current installation. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/