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Re: Download Cygwin???


* Brian Keener wrote: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00225.html>

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Brian D wrote:
 ?Is there any way that I can d/l Cygwin, with the packages that I
 need, at my workplace, then write a CD-R and take it home for
 installation??? ?Comments or advice???

Sure - don't see why not - when you run the setup.exe program select the option
for download only and then place them in whatever folder you want. Burn that
folder to CD and then when you get it home you can run setup.exe again and this
time select the the option for install from local and select the path where the
files are now - either the cd or where you copied to your hard drive.


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Two comments:
1) CD file formats don't always accept the long directory names created by cygwin setup, so it is safer to zip or tar the files
before copying to CD.
2) You can also install from net (rather than download from net), since all the downloaded compressed files are retained. Make sure setup.exe is in the directory with the compressed files, zip that directory, transfer via CD, then use setup.exe with the "install from disk" option. That way you can check out your installation before transferring or archiving. Without remembering the details, I think install-from-net also prevents duplicate file downloads whenever downloading is interrupted and then completed later.


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