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Scott Shell wrote:
> I am brand new to all things Cygwin so I am writing from the
> prospective of the complete newbie.  I did read the FAQs and search
> this newsgroup first though, like a good newbie.
> 
> Setup.exe lacks a resume feature as far as I can tell.  I was in the
> process of "Install from Internet" for the first time, downloading
> many MBs which took over 45 minutes.  I know now to select far fewer
> packages.  But anyway, something urgent came up and I had to shut down
> my computer, so I had to click the Cancel button.
> 
> Later, I ran Setup again and was dismayed when it did not remember
> where it left off.  It began to download the same files from the
> beginning.  Taking up about an hour of my time is of course negligible
> but it is a waste of bandwidth for the mirrors.
> 
> On the "Choose A Download Site" screen on this second run of Setup I
> selected a site at random 

<snip>

That's your problem.  'setup.exe' keeps track of what you downloaded
previously by mirror.  Choose a different mirror than last time (and
more specifically, NOT including the mirror you specified last time -
you can have up to 4) will cause 'setup.exe' to download all selected
packages again.

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