Jessica M. Sager wrote:
install of the software. Is a non-network install version of Cygwin
available?
The setup.exe program linked on main page can download the entire
distribution. You can then copy that distribution anywhere you want and
use setup.exe to install on any non-networked
Cygwin be placed in our archive for use, but
after reviewing the Cygwin site, I am unable to find a non-network
install of the software. Is a non-network install version of Cygwin
available? If so, we would like to add it to our Software Archives. We
will be including both a copy of the licensing
B Thomas wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thank you very much for all your replies. Having the distribution in
> folder below the top one does indeed solve the problem.
>
> I wrote a bunch of tiny bash scripts to make the check dependencies and
> make the iso image for two CD's. I shal
Here are the scripts I used, some explaination is also in another post
to this thread :
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#!/bin/sh
# Script to check the dependencies of packages in the Cygwin distribution
# The script needs the file CDindex.txt and depend
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thank you very much for all your replies. Having the distribution in
folder below the top one does indeed solve the problem.
I wrote a bunch of tiny bash scripts to make the check dependencies and
make the iso image for two CD's. I shall put up the scripts and d
B Thomas wrote:
Hi,
I did not mean to offend anyone. I do have strong feelings about such
things. I will certainly try to make this CD and put instructions on my
web page to do the same. Thank you for you paitence and understanding.
No offense taken. I just wanted to be clear on the issues so t
See inline comment below.
B Thomas wrote:
>
> We did try copying the CD contents to his harddrive to a directory in
> My Documents\temp\Cygwin\setup.exe(and other subdirectories)
> Then ran setup and specified that we wanted to install from "local disk"
> with path My Documents\temp\Cygwin\releas
Hi,
I did not mean to offend anyone. I do have strong feelings about such
things. I will certainly try to make this CD and put instructions on my
web page to do the same. Thank you for you paitence and understanding.
sincerely
B Thomas
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:22:59PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
B Thomas wrote:
Now let me give you a stronger reason why I think distributing software
ONLY by network installs is a very bad idea.
Hm, what makes you think that Cygwin can only be distributed via network
installs? You yourself noted that all the packages were available for
download via FTP
We did try copying the CD contents to his harddrive to a directory in
My Documents\temp\Cygwin\setup.exe(and other subdirectories)
Then ran setup and specified that we wanted to install from "local disk"
with path My Documents\temp\Cygwin\release.
Even this gave the same errors as I originally post
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 neith
/ 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-insta
Hi there
My WAG is that you need to place all those top level directory contents
into a single new top level directory. setup.exe is said to fumble the
ball if you try an install from a package directory which is the root
directory of a drive.
When you run
:\\setup.exe
you have to ensure that t
Hi,
Thank you for responding.
But it doesn't seem like I have some thing missing , here is the listing
of my top level CD-ROM directory :
directory -
total 1116
-r--r--r--1 bt bt 2600 Jun 10 08:00 INSTALL.TXT
-r--r--r--1 bt bt 4141 Apr 18 2002 README.TXT
B Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I would be gratefull if you could help with the following problem:
>
> I am trying to make a CD so that cywin binary/source can be installed
> from this CD. The reason being I only have a linux computer my friend
> only has a Windows XP. I have a fast internet connection ,
Hi,
I would be gratefull if you could help with the following problem:
I am trying to make a CD so that cywin binary/source can be installed
from this CD. The reason being I only have a linux computer my friend
only has a Windows XP. I have a fast internet connection , he has none.
we finally did
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