> From: Max Bowsher > Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > >>> However > >>> this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff > >>> to CDs. > >> > >> Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just > >> about every package? > > > > Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating such CD for my own usage, I > > would get away with 100 mb or so. But in this case I have to include > > everything, if possible. > > Perhaps you should explain to the people you are making the CD for that > ~550MB is enough to hold the latest version of everything, but not to hold > everything including a load of old stale package versions, that they will > never use anyway. > > Or, use Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl with the -archive option > to strip the > old versions out of your download into a seperate archive dir, > and burn that > to a second CD. > > URL: http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/
Or make the first stage of installing from multiple CD's to be "copy all to hard drive... and install from there." J. -- 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/
