On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:41:17AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:59:33AM +0000, hzgmaxw...@sohu.com wrote: >>Every time when I was installing a cygwin, I run the setup twice. >>The first time is to download only, then the second is to install from local >>directory. >> >>To doing like this is to keep the installed packages under a specified >>directory, then later on I can re-install from there if only I need to >>install cygwin again. > >It sounds like you're going to extra, unneeded work. You can just >install the packages using the default "Install from Internet". The >files will still be in the download directory when you're done.
Sorry. I stopped typing too soon. I meant to mention this: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.disk-space 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
