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 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:31:53 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Installation from locally stored packages Message-ID: <20031126183153.GD8993@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <008e01c3b42c$4edb9540$740e10ac AT uk DOT circle DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008e01c3b42c$4edb9540$740e10ac@uk.circle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08PM -0000, Vince Hoffman wrote: >Actualy at least 1/2 of the mirror sites allow downloading via FTP. >(and some via rsync too) I'm sure that it is much more than 1/2 but it doesn't matter anyway. Just use wget or curl to download the files. >if you know what you are doing and keep the directory structure its >entirely possible. have a google on site:cygwin.com cygwin install >from cd or similar to find previous discussions. Right. The initial poster couldn't have searched too hard if they couldn't find this since it seems to come up every couple of weeks. cgf -- 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/