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 Message-ID: <20041016184123.7643.qmail@web51409.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:41:23 -0300 (ART) From: Diogo Franco Subject: Re: Issue with Cygwin Setup on slow and unstable connection To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam --- Igor Pechtchanski escreveu: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Diogo Franco wrote: > > > There's a problem with the Cygwin Web Setup > program > > that's not really a technical problem. > > > > There's a problem with the my connection that it > drop > > with no reason after a little while (the my record > > today was 1 hour and 15 minutes connected). > > > > Is there a way to download the cygwin packages > with a > > download manager and then use a local folder as a > > "mirror"? > > > > Or to improve the setup to be able to continue > > downloads after a connection drop, or pause the > download? > > Check out "clean_setup.pl" (Google for it). It may > help solve your > problems. > > To answer your question: yes, it's possible to > download packages > separately, and then install them using setup. Just > select the "Install > from Local Directory" option. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, > Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a > JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for > long hours in doing > whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal > Harshaw > > -- > 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/ > > Thanks. But do I have to copy the directory structure, create an INI file, or it will just read the packages and work fine? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/