As I mentioned earlier I was trying to help a friend without a network connection install it . But now I just want to know how it can be done as I was trying to make a Cygwin CD so that he could use it to install both binaries and sources when he pleases. With a fair bit of inconvienence (as neither of us have a car) , we finally got his computer to my place and installed it over the network. I did not have a windows OS on my own computer to be able to run setup and did not trust wine.
Now let me give you a stronger reason why I think distributing software ONLY by network installs is a very bad idea. If you were a average working man in almost any other country other than america then as you may check for your self a high speed internet would be quite a pinch on your monthly salary. To many it would not even be affordable. So if you think about this a while, making network install the only option is in very bad taste. I mention this since you specifically asked . Now if you do see my point is sincere and a valid one, you should be wondering why is there so little documentation on the cygwin site on how to do this or why is it almost impossible to find a reasonably priced CD rom distribution being sold by anyone ?. What kind of a marketing strategy do you think RedHat had here when they specifically took over cygwin from the earstwhile Cygnus solutions? If anyone does know of such a CD Rom distribution of the Cywin product family (both source and binary) I would very happly buy one so that I could help many more people install it on their computers, in future, with greater ease. In the absence of such an alternative I was looking for how to build a CD Rom distribution myself but found hardly any information!! sincerely B.Thomas On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:41:18PM +0200, Andrew Markebo wrote: > / B Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Hi, > | I would be gratefull if you could help with the following problem: > | [...] > | So I mirrored a cygwin ftp archive and burned them onto a CD. However when > | I try to install from the CD I get the following two errors many, many > | times when the post-install scripts are running. > > Any special reason mirroring it over ftp (it sounds like that), > instead of letting setup download the packages and put it as it wants > them? > > /Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
