David Starks-Browning wrote: > On Thursday 27 Feb 03, BB writes: >> As a followup question, In order to create a CD to install from, >> would it be better to simply ftp the files from one of the mirror >> sites. > > Yes.
Partially. A plain FTP mirror will get you current and previous versions of every package, and all that won't fit on a CD. Use clean_setup.pl http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ to parse setup.ini and build a list of current package files to download. > >> What would the >> correct directory structure have to be for setup to install from the >> d:\cygwin-setup as a local source assuming d: was a cd? Would this >> be enough? >> >> d:\setup.exe >> d:\cygwin-setup\setup.ini >> d:\cygwin-setup\release\... > > Yes, if what you mean to convey is that you follow the full > sub-directory structure under release. > > The tricky part is providing setup.exe with the right "download path" > to get setup to pull things from the CD. Unless someone chimes in > with the right answer, you might have to experiment a bit. Just put setup.exe in the same dir as setup.ini and release/ Don't put those 3 in the root of the CD, though, I think someone had problems with that. 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/
