I have been trying to build a customized cygwin install solution. The goal is/was to put just the necessary packages on a CD and use that as the 'Install from local directory' source. In this way I could choose to install everything in one step, and get all the packages I want/need. To do this, I have built a custom mirror of the cygwin tree - using wget from a linux workstation. I removed packages that are unnecessary, and edited the setup.ini file to match what is there. I burned a CD of this, tried it on a fresh Win2k install, but no luck - setup finds a way to generate an error but not enough information to understand what happened. So, I also tried installing from the network from my custom mirror instead of the CD. Results are likewise bad. Obviously I have not done this correctly. I have tried installing from my system's full(no packages deleted, and setup.ini unedited) mirror with no luck. I have checked and was unable to find any details that would lead me to believe that building a cygwin mirror is anything but straight-forward.
Is building a mirror anything other than downloading packages and setting up apache to know the location? Is it possible to create a custom install mirror? If so, has anyone done this and how? Is the CDROM file tree possible and how? -- Bill Geddes <wgeddes at wgeddes dot com> -- 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/
