> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:30 AM > I would like to install Cygwin on a DOS box that doesn't have an > Internet connection but that does have a network connection to a Linux > box. The Linux box is dual-homed (Internet and the private lan) but > does not route between the two networks. It does export a filesystem > to the DOS box. If I could populate the Linux filesystem with the > Cygwin packages then I could use setup.exe's > "Install from Local Directory." option on the DOS box. But I've been > unable to find a Linux version of setup.exe which I would use to > populate the Linux filesystem via the "Download from Internet" option. > > So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate > the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin?
I'm not sure this can be run on the Linux-machine, but anyway; clean_setup from http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ has some sort of mechanism to get the packages via e.g. wget. (I have yet to try it out myself) /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E --76--> ** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/
