Raimund Hook wrote: > Hi > > I have just downloaded the entire package directory from a cygwin > mirror site, with the aim to get cygwin onto a CD for installation. > > Setup.exe recognises everything great, and I can run the installation > off my hard drive using a local package install. However, the entire > size of the package directory is roughly 1GB. > > Is there any way I can split this onto 2 CD's? and still be able to > install of the CDs? or do I need to then copy the CD's to a local > directory for installation?
Just don't include old versions of packages. Minus [prev] versions, release/ is ~ 575MB. Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl will easily filter out those packages marked [prev] in setup.ini. http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ Max. -- 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/
