X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <460840FB.6070809@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:54:03 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Can I download packages and install seperately References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 lin q wrote: > Hi, > I have a slow internet connection at home and now I want to install > cygwin on it. Based on my passed experience, the only way I can do a > fresh install is to download setup.exe, run it, configure what packages > I want and it will download the packages. This does not work for me this > time. > > I wonder if I can do the download part at work with broadband, save the > downloaded into some portable drive and take the drive home to complete > the installation? > > I do not think there is such option on the setup.exe GUI, but want to > know if there is some way. You obviously haven't looked too closely at "setup.exe". While it's default mode is to download and install, you have the option of just downloading and, later, installing from a local directory. If you check the email archives, you'll see many requests like yours and many pointers to the functionality I just mentioned. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/