Hi, Toni Mueller writes: > So my current guess is that I can download some stuff using eg. my Linux > workstation, put them on CD and then move the CD to the W2k box for > local installation there. Can anyone please confirm that? Can anyone > please tell me which version of setup.exe I should get to be able to > install from a local directory?
You lose a lot of the functionality of setup.exe if you do it this way but you can certainly do this if you want to have a hard time. > > (Apart from that I always thought that doing online-installs is both > error-prone and insecure in most cases, and in general, a M$ disease - > why does RedHat do it?) > This is just not true. Debian's apt-get retrieves packages by default from the web, and so do several RPM-based utilities. FreeBSD's ports collection grabs the sources from the web by default, and precompiled packages can also be installed from the web. It's certainly not a M$ disease but rather common practice. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- 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/
