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Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Laurynas Biveinis" <laurynas dot biveinis at mif dot vu dot lt>,"Ross Smith II" <ross at smithii dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:36:26 -0000
- Subject: Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs
- References: <NDBBJINIMKJKPGEBBJLKCEKLFGAA.ross@smithii.com> <3E0F9350.8090007@mif.vu.lt>
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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