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Re: Cygwin CD question
- From: Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: William Nicholson <WVNicholson at lbl dot gov>, "William V. Nicholson" <wvnicholson at lbl dot gov>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:51:25 EDT
- Subject: Re: Cygwin CD question
William,
Your post makes close to no sense.
> I am interested in using Cygwin; but I don't
> believe I require the Cygwin license for my applications.
Huh? Explain that one... no wait I'll spare us all: don't explain that one.
> I have
> previously used Cygwin by downloading it; but I encountered some
> difficulties with the setup program, especially for downloading source
> code.
Then try downloading again. Select a different mirror site this time and
make sure that you have the latest setup.exe: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
> There
> are security issues with downloading Cygwin before installing ViperDB or
> similar software under Cygwin and that is why I am interested in obtaining
> Cygwin by CD.
What?!? Security issues?!?
If you need Cygwin on a CD I'll be glad to sell the service of creating one
for you for $300. Cash or check. No COD.
> My current workaround is just to download Cygwin using the
> fastest connection available and then burn a CD although that doesn't
> solve the problem with downloading source code)
It sure does solve the problem. Choose the "Download from Internet" option
on the second screen of setup. Set the package directory to a temporary
directory that contains setup.exe, then burn that directory to a CD. Problem
solved.
Harold
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