Re: how to install without internet connection?

[jwaterbrook <jwaterbrook at keyww dot com>]

That's exactly right, you want to download all the files and directories that you see there.
What someone else is suggesting is that you use a utility that will download the whole thing, so you don't have to browse each folder and manually click each one of them to download.
Teleport pro is a windows utility that will do this, but it's commercial, wget may be your best option if you have access to a linux box or if you can use google to find an alternative, that would work too.

waxmop@sarcastic-horse.com wrote:
> Can you dumb it down for me a little more?
>
> I don't have a wget tool installed on w2k desktop.  If I want to use this
> mirror:
>
> http://cygwin.get-software.com/
>
> And the top folder on that mirror shows these files:
>
>  Parent Directory        07-May-2003 04:45      -
>  mail-archives/          09-May-2003 05:29      -
>  md5.sum                 08-May-2003 20:54     1k
>  release/                09-May-2003 05:44      -
>  setup.bz2               08-May-2003 20:10    45k
>  setup.exe               07-Apr-2003 06:20   253k
>  setup.exe.old           08-Mar-2003 17:08   180k
>  setup.ini               08-May-2003 20:10   176k
>  tmp/                    09-May-2003 05:29      -
>  xfree/                  09-May-2003 05:29      -
>
> What should folder should I grab?  Should I grab everything in the release
> folder and download it into a folder on my computer called
> 'cygwin_packages_I_downloaded'?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  > Yes. You can download the site, and use the local dir to install
>  >
>  > 1) Choose a mirror from the mirror list at wwww.cygwin.com
>  > 2) download the entire file tree. Use wget  or other similar tool
>  > 3) select install from local directory
>  >
>  >
>  > Orginal -------------
>  > Hi -
>  >
>  >
>  > The proxy server at work is really fussy and no matter what I try, I
>  > can't get the setup.exe that I pulled of the cygwin website to
>  > successfully connect.
>  >
>  > Is there a way to install without having the installer be able to
>  > connect to the internet?  For example, can I download all the packages I
>  > need, then fire up the installer, and then point it at that directory?
>  >
>  > How do I do that?
>  >
>
>
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