On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:59:57AM +0000, Steve T wrote: > Just a question regarding the behaviour of setup.exe. > > I selected the download to local directory option. I'm trying to > download all binary packages. I'm on dialup, so of course the > connection drops out sometimes (i think the session limit is 24 > hours). Of course, setup needs a lot more time than that. My > question is this: Will setup.exe automatically skip over anything > that has already been downloaded (but not installed)? > > I'm wondering because I was up to 40%. Setup.exe seems to hang on > disconnection. Upon reconnection, it doesn't seem to be trying to do > anything, so I just close setup and start again. When I start again, > the progress is shown as 0%. I'm not sure whether this is 0% of > everything I want to install or 0% of the files that haven't been > downloaded yet. > > Does changing mirrors affect anything?
Using a different mirror *will* make it start over from the beginning. Otherwise, it shouldn't need to; the 0% is of everything it is planning on downloading. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
