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Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs


Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> Ross Smith II wrote:
>>> From: Laurynas Biveinis
>>>
>>> I want to burn CDs with full cygwin distribution with sources and
>>> so on. I've downloaded everything from
>>> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/sources.redhat/cygwin/release, but it
>>> takes almost 1 GB. How should I burn it into 2 CDs so that
>>> setup.exe still works correctly? What directory layout should I use?
>>
>>
>> Laurynas,
>>
>> I fit everything I need on 1 CD, by not including the /xfree
>> directory (370MB), the /release/XFree86 directory (80MB), and not
>> including the [prev] and [test] packages listed in setup.ini:
>
> Thank you, your script looks very handy in case of single CD. However
> this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff to
> CDs.

Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just about every
package?

Max.


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