David, The check-box is the download or install _with source_ option.
It seems that Setup.exe is doing what you ask. Surely downloading all that source and then deleting those tarballs is a little circuitous and / or wasteful, no? By the way, my use is identical to yours. I always use separate download and install phases and I don't routinely install any of the source, I just keep it for when I'm bored or have an idea or a question or something. However, I never (have to) cycle the install mode spinner they way you do, I just check the "include source" box during download and leave it unchecked during installation. I've always had good success with this approach. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 15:21 2002-01-30, you wrote: >Hi. It's been awhile since I installed Cygwin, and since then the >setup.exe program seems to have become considerably more complicated. > >I'm using setup.exe version 2.125.2.10. I use a two step process: > > 1) Download from Internet > 2) Install from Local Directory > >Once I get to the package selection screen, I hit the "View" button >until I get a full listing, and then I click each package so that >it cycles from "Skip" to "Source" and finally to a version number. >Once the version number is displayed, I check the box. Once this >has been repeated for each package, I hit the next button, and the >tar-balls are downloaded. I do the same thing for step 2) to >install Cygwin. > >The problem I'm having is that setup insists on both downloading and >installing the source tarballs as well as the binaries. Even with a 2GB >partition, and after choosing a subset of the packages, I still don't have >space for all the source packages. > >I'm going to try deleting the src tarballs after step 1), but before step >2), and see what happens. But in the mean time: am I missing something? > >Thanks in advance. > >-David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
