X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Paul Subject: Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again? Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20AD854C98A AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> <20121125072140 DOT GB12513 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <1572485345 DOT 20121128130051 AT mtu-net DOT ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Andrey Repin freemail.ru> writes: >> For the downloaded packages from which I would create an installation CD, I >> created c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg. I chose "Download without installing" in >> setup.exe and "Reinstall" in the Select Packages phase. However, the >> download fails repeatedly regardless of the mirror specified. Fortunately, >> in the initial download attempt, most of the download was completed before >> the failure. In order to fetch only the missing packages, I identified the >> missing packages... <...snip...> >> Unfortunately, I can only select Keep or Uninstall. There is no choice to >> Reinstall regardless of whether the Keep or Cur radio buttons are selected. <...snip...> > Simple solution would be to remove these packages from cache and download them > anew, when you doing a new install. Hmmm. Never realized it was that simple. I shall give it a try. And of course, keep close tabs on the person running setup on my behalf so that we get the missing packages. Thanks, Andrey! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple