On Jul 7 08:03, Fergus wrote: > I made separate iso files (setup*exe + setup*ini + release*/) for the > Legacy version [1.5] and current version [1.7]. At 4335495168 and > 5039841280 respectively they are both too large to reside on a FAT32 > file system, and the larger one can't be burned to an installation DVD. > > I put both on a 16G NTFS stick along with ancient portable freeware > VirtualCDRom (which does what it says but allows arbitrarily?? high > capacity disks) and then install directly to a host machine. Easy and > convenient. (Of course, for local installations I guess one could omit > *src*bz2 thus drastically reducing both sizes to be DVD-resident.) > > Then I realised: all the files setup*exe + setup*ini + release*/ fit on > the stick anyway: creating *.iso and using VirtualCDRom are redundant > steps. > > Nevertheless, it is a tantalising problem: what's the best answer to > give to a 3rd party who wants to install [1.7] on a machine without > network access?
Rsync the content of a mirror of your choice onto a stick. Copy setup.exe and setup-legacy.exe to the stick. On the target machine, start one of setup or setup-legacy, choose "Install from Local Directory", enter the path to the stick, for instance "X:\", as the Locale Package Directory. Install. Done. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
