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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 07:33:54 -0800
To: "Markus Hoenicka" <Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: "local install"?
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Markus,

At 07:31 2002-03-01, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Toni Mueller writes:
>  > So my current guess is that I can download some stuff using eg. my Linux
>  > workstation, put them on CD and then move the CD to the W2k box for
>  > local installation there. Can anyone please confirm that? Can anyone
>  > please tell me which version of setup.exe I should get to be able to
>  > install from a local directory?
>
>You lose a lot of the functionality of setup.exe if you do it this way but 
>you can certainly do this if you want to have a hard time.


I don't understand this. You get maximum flexibility by separate "Download 
from Internet" and "Install from Local Directory" operations. That way you 
can download sources and have them at hand without unconditionally 
installing them.

By copying my local installation cache to a CD, I can save others very 
large downloads.

I cannot see this as a loss of functionality.

Can you tell me some functionality only available when one uses "Install 
from Internet?"

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


>...
>
>regards,
>Markus


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