Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:54:30PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >On Fri, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:43, Steve Miller wrote: > > > >> (Why, oh why, dear God, can't Red Hat just make a big archive file?) > > > >For the same reason you haven't read the

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:54:30PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:43, Steve Miller wrote: > >> (Why, >> oh why, dear God, can't Red Hat just make a big >> archive file?) > >For the same reason you haven't read the FAQ >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC14. In Soviet Russia

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:43, Steve Miller wrote: > (Why, > oh why, dear God, can't Red Hat just make a big > archive file?) For the same reason you haven't read the FAQ http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC14. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signatur

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 18:27 2003-02-27, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > This whole business comes under the "going against the grain" theme. > > > You're going to have much better luck, far fewer head

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steve, Well, you don't _have_ to use Setup.exe, but if you don't, you need to know how it re-arranges the directory structure between the mirror host and the local directory. Again, check out the messages I referred to and choose either Michael Chase's (Perl) or my (BASH) scripts to do the dow

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Miller
Randall, In one word oh. Didn't think that setup could do that ... but I didn't try setup.exe in the first place 'cause I was on a Linux box. It might be nice if there were some way to download w/o resorting to an exe file. When I get the chance, I'll run setup.exe from a Windows machine

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 18:27 2003-02-27, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > [snip] > > This whole business comes under the "going against the grain" theme. > You're going to have much better luck, far fewer headaches and keep you > hair a lot longer if you do things the way they'r

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > [snip] > > This whole business comes under the "going against the grain" theme. > You're going to have much better luck, far fewer headaches and keep you > hair a lot longer if you do things the way they're intended to be done. > Furthermore, you're g

Re: setup dies on local install

2003-02-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steve, Did you use Setup to do the download, or did you use some other tool? If it was the latter, then most likely you did not create the proper directory naming convention required by Setup.exe. As for providing Cygwin in a single grotesque tarball, that's really infeasible. Updates happen f

setup dies on local install

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Miller
Hi, I downloaded everything labeled "base" and whatever else I wanted from a Cygwin mirror, preserving the directory tree, so I could burn a CD for installs on two machines that will not have internet access. (Why, oh why, dear God, can't Red Hat just make a big archive file?) So before burning