I made separate iso files (setup*exe + setup*ini + release*/) for the Legacy version [1.5] and current version [1.7]. At 4335495168 and 5039841280 respectively they are both too large to reside on a FAT32 file system, and the larger one can't be burned to an installation DVD.
I put both on a 16G NTFS stick along with ancient portable freeware VirtualCDRom (which does what it says but allows arbitrarily?? high capacity disks) and then install directly to a host machine. Easy and convenient. (Of course, for local installations I guess one could omit *src*bz2 thus drastically reducing both sizes to be DVD-resident.) Then I realised: all the files setup*exe + setup*ini + release*/ fit on the stick anyway: creating *.iso and using VirtualCDRom are redundant steps. Nevertheless, it is a tantalising problem: what's the best answer to give to a 3rd party who wants to install [1.7] on a machine without network access? Fergus -- 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
