FW: missing telnet, solution

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Phil Burk sent this to me.

Harold

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Burk [mailto:philburk@softsynth.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:16 AM
To: Harold Hunt
Subject: Re: missing telnet, solution


Hello Harold,

Thanks for updating the doc! It seems like a minor thing but it will save
folks like me from many hours of head scratching.

Phill Burk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "Phil Burk" <philburk@softsynth.com>; <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:58 PM
Subject: RE: missing telnet, solution


> Phil,
>
> I updated the User's Guide to say that most users will find the default
> package list sufficient, but that you want to make sure that openssh and
> inetutils are selected if you wish to use telnet or ssh.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Harold
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Phil Burk
> > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:49 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: missing telnet, solution
> >
> >
> > I followed all the steps to install Cygwin/XFree from the user guide.
> > Everything worked great until I got to the part about telnet. It
> > was missing
> > from my installation. I spent about two hours looking over the Cygwin
site
> > trying to figure out how to get and install telnet. I noticed in
> > this forum
> > that other folks had the same problem but no working solution was
offered.
> >
> > I finally figured it out. Here's how:
> >
> > - re-run the SETUP.EXE program that you used to install Cygwin,
> >
> > - select "Install from Internet" option,
> >
> > - select same install directory as before,
> >
> > - choose a download site as before,
> >
> > - when you get a list of packages, click the '+' next to the
> > "Net" category,
> >
> > - select the "inetutils" package and the "openssh" package,
> >
> > - continue downloading.
> >
> > Your installation will be updated with those new packages.
> >
> > Perhaps the Cygwin/XFree86 User Guide could be modified to make
> > sure telnet
> > and ssh get included in the installation the first time. It
> > currently tells
> > people to leave the default settings alone but the default does
> > not include
> > telnet.
> >
> > Phil Burk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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