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-BigFish: V Message-ID: <8509A0473763CE41A0A3D19A0E2C76F50102BF4C@mre04.enterprise.com> From: "Mills, John M." To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Hello, and installation question Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:59:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-IsSubscribed: yes All - First, 'Hello' from a new subscriber (though not a new user). I use Cygwin primarily for cross-development from a Win32 host and find it impressively functional. Now I need to bring some other developers on-board. My question: I need to install Cygwin on systems with no net access and am having problems building a CD fileset from which to install on other machines. I have a very satisfactory Cygwin installation on a net-connected WinXP-Pro laptop and would like to install a similar configuration on other systems. I haven't been completely successful targeting a Win2k desktop system. I used the Cygwin installer to download the fileset I want, and put the downloaded directory in the same branch as the installer and those files the installer creates ('setup.ini', etc.). I then put the entire branch on a CD and tried to install from that on my target. The result is only a partial installation - most obviously I miss some of the X11 files. The problem files don't appear on the the installation list when I work on the target, but they _do_ appear when I use the same CD on my original installation host. (I know I am missing the 'xorgX11*bin-dlls* files; there may be others I haven't noticed yet.) I know the files are on the CD, but they don't show up on the installation menu list _when_I'm_on_the_new_ target_. They appear just fine on the target where the packages were already installed. I have tried installation directly from the CD, from a hard-drive copy of its 'setup.exe', and from a full HD copy of the fileset. None of these was successful. The target machine has a _very_ old, non-X11-supporting installation of a 'Cygnus' API that I ultimately want to replace, but for the moment I want parallel environments if possible. (I mention this in case there may be interaction, though I haven't noticed any.) I conjecture there is a list or configuration file somewhere on the target or on my CD that screens packages for possible installation, but I don't know how to force the choices or modify (delete?) such a file. TIA for any suggestions. John M. Mills Staff Engineer EMS Technologies 660 Engineering Drive Norcross, GA 30092 770.263.9200 ext4882 -- 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/