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From: Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG <keenwa AT eglin DOT af DOT mil>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:28:59 -0500

A simple and crude method that appear to work for me for creating a Cygwin
install CD for non-networked or classified (gulp) machines.
(Warning, this is crude and takes some connect time. It involves less
clicks though!)

(1) I use explorer to go to the ftp side of my favorite mirror house.
(2) I download the contents of the release directory into a release
     directory in my cygtemp directory.
(3) Once (2) is done, I copy setup.exe and setup.ini into my
     cygtemp directory.
(4) I burn the Cygtemp directory to CD.  I have been able to do
     incremental (not full) setups on machines running setup.exe
     from the CD.

Again, this is crude, and takes some time (mostly unattended).
The process (2) downloads everything, including source, so
you end up downloading over 500 megabytes.

I do find that when the ftp process dies (and it always does at
some point for me), I find it fairly easy to see where it died,
and restart it where it left off. (Funny note, after one of these
restarts this morning, thje first estimate on download time
was 1 day, 10 hours.....next was 5 minutes)

Crude and unrefined, but it seems to work, and its easy
to say "get everything", even for an IQ challenged Ph.D.

Wayne Keen



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