On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:23:43AM -0800, Merek Thorondursson wrote: >Using setup.exe for a different computer >Tuesday March 02, 2010 > >I have looked through the FAQ's and archives for a solution >to my problem, but have gotten hopelessly lost and cannot >find anyone with the same problem. The closest I found was >a (rather interesting) 2003 post about a CD installation. > >I use two computers. The one which is connected to the >Internet is a Windows 98 Second Edition machine. The one >on which I hope to use Cygwin uses Windows XP Pro with SP2. > >The setup.exe file I downloaded matches the Cygwin 1.7.x >installation, which is what I want. However, the machine >I use to access the Internet is greeted with the error >message that Cygwin 1.7 doesn't run on Windows 95, 98 or ME >and suggests that I use an older 1.5 version. > >I anticipate that setup.exe looks at the local operating >system prior to searching for/retrieving packages. I don't >want to use an older 1.5 Cygwin on my XP box. It has no >Internet connection, so I can't use it to fetch the packages. > >I got the impression that setup.exe would download files >which could later be installed, and I planned to carry those >from this machine to that one via a USB flash drive. > >What operation am I missing that will allow me to use this >Windows 98 SE machine to retrieve packages for 1.7?
Sorry, but right now it isn't possible to use setup.exe to do this. It's a hard error at the beginning of the program if you try to access a 1.7.x version of Cygwin on an ancient version of Windows. In theory, you could probably just manually download the Cygwin setup.ini and release directory from a mirror site but I don't know what gotchas there are there. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
