Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020530134530.02dcd398@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:51:57 -0400 To: Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG <keenwa AT eglin DOT af DOT mil>, "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com> Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method In-Reply-To: <30C9E24891FFD411B68A009027724CB74433FD@eg-002-015.eglin.af .mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:28 PM 5/30/2002, Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG wrote: >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. You might like wget then, if you get lots of disconnections. It can reconnect automatically and pick up where it left off. A great time saver for the highly automated! ;-) Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/