Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:24:54 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: ie cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: download and installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, ie wrote: > Good Signors, > > I understand I need Cygwin to run PostgreSQL on Windows 2000. Alas, the > PostgreSQL website doesn't say how much of Cygwin is needed. To play it > safe I assume all of Cygwin. > > Your website warns Cygwin is huge as heck, which precludes me from > downloading to my machine over my slow line. It seems to me setup.exe wants > to do both the downloading and installing. > > Question: > Can I download Cygwin to one machine and install it on another machine ? > > Thank you. > > Cheers > -- > ie Except for the cygipc package (as mentioned in the official PostgreSQL README), all other dependences should be picked up when you select the PostgreSQL package in setup. In other words, just run setup, select the PostgreSQL package, and let it do its job. Then read the README for instructions on actually running it. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- 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/