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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andy Civil Subject: Re: Hi, Installing from a CD-ROM. Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:58:11 -0400 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3F3F89F3.4020300@hotmail.com> References: <200308171522 DOT 14513 DOT stemanolo AT lycos DOT es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en M.G.A. wrote: > Hi, > I want to install cygwin on a laptop that doesn't have Internet access, so I > want to use a CDROM. > > I've made a CD with cygwin packages, I have not respected the same structure > "release/directoryofpackage" in the ftp mirror. > > I've read in FAQ that you have to use "install from internet" feature, but > that does setup freeze. > > When I run "setup" in the laptop it only appears two packages. > I've done a query in the mailinglist archive with no success either. > > So where should I place the dirs with the packages and how should I run > setup.exe ? > > > --- > mga > > I just did something similar, which worked apart from the problem I posted before yours. I downloaded (only) to my D:/ drive, then switched my C:/ drive to a new installation with no internet access, and installed (only) from the files on the D:/ drive. It follows that if you preserve the file structure it should work. CD's are cheap, I suggest you try again. If it's the file names that are a problem, use zip. -- Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/