Re: how to install without internet connection?

[waxmop at sarcastic-horse dot com]

Ok - I'm downloading the releases/ folder and all its children.  This
means I'm grabbing a whole bunch of source tarballs and tarballs for
previous versions, so it's probably 4x as big as necessary, but so be it.

Thanks for the help.


> 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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