On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Frank B. Brokken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About once a year I want to reinstall a new version of cygwin. What
> I did in the past is download setup.exe/setup.ini and the release/
> directory from a mirror, and install all but the src packages and
> setup.* on a CDROM.
>
> From what I read in the mailing list, this can be a problem if the
> release dir. is located immediately at the root of the CD, and so I
> created a directory cygwin, below which release was stored.
>
> However, when I try to install cygwin using setup, telling it to
> install from a local directory, in my case e:\cygwin\release, the setup
> window shows all packages in the misc set, which is clearly not as it
> should be.
>
> I'm sure I'm overseeing something here, but as I'm overseeing it, I
> can't figure out what's going wrong.
>
> Can anybody help me out?
>
> Additional info: what I need to have is a possibility to install
> cygwin on a computer which is either not connected to the internet or
> connected via a slow link. The CDROM helps me to download the
> information via a fast-link, burn a CD, and then proceed with the
> installation from the CD. However, although this worked well last year,
> this year I can't seem to get it right.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistence I receive,
setup.ini should be in e:\cygwin, and you should specify that as your
local package directory, not e:\cygwin\release.
Igor
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