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Re: downloading cygwin from linux
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: community help <helpcomm at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: downloading cygwin from linux
- References: <20050419161017.28125.qmail@web30003.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, community help wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I tried to download cygwin from a linux machine but
> with no success. Is there any way to download every
> thing at a time and install it later on a windows
> machine?
> I'm trying to download cygwin from work where i have a
> linux system and i want to install it at home where i
> have windows but no internet connection.
>
> PS: executing setup.exe in linux does not work. So
> there must be an other way.
Two possibilities immediately spring to mind: WINE or BEER (bring
everything employing rsync). Both are untested.
Igor
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