On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 07:18:19AM +0000, Fergus wrote: >Thanks for great new version. > >1.7 uses setup.ini, draws from release/, uses setup.exe v.2.673. >1.5 uses setup-legacy.ini, draws from release-legacy/, uses setup.exe >v.2.673 (i.e. the same version as 1.7). > >My question is: how does a user install 1.5 from scratch (if desired or >needed e.g. old faithful W98SE machine)? > >One way is to download setup.exe, setup-legacy.ini and the entire >release-legacy/*, change the .ini filename to setup.ini and then run >setup.exe as a local install. > >(Actually I haven't tried this yet, will one additionally have to rename >the directory release-legacy/ to release/ and change all instances of >release-legacy/ where they occur in the .ini file to release/? I guess >it depends what setup.exe is expecting and whether the term >release-legacy will trip it up.) > >But how to manage a web install?
Uh, huh? If you want to install 1.5 then run setup-legacy.exe. There shouldn't be any mystery here. And, you certainly don't want to play games with renaming files because that's not going to work. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
