Thanks. The information on that website is very useful. I believe I would have succeeded previously if I had used the 'upset' script.
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 07:38, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Bill Geddes wrote: > > > 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, > > For instructions on setting up a custom mirror, see a recent thread on > cygwin-apps (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-12/msg00124.html> and > on). Make sure you read the whole thread, though. > > If you want to make an installation CD, Google for 'cygwin install cd > site:cygwin.com'. > Igor -- 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/
