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 w/ a CD burner.
Thanks. That stuff you'll feel as I shake your hand
will be my hair....
Steve
--- Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com> wrote:
> 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 frequently, and each update would require a
> new multi-hundred-megabyte tarball. Furthermore, many (probably most)
> users would be required to download far more data than they want or need.
>
> Check for the very recent posts about how to download under the
> Subject: "Re: Setup "Download from Internet" Question".
>
> 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 going to be told that "rolling your own"
> installation procedure is not (kindly) supported here.
>
> Randall Schulz
>
>
> At 17:43 2003-02-27, Steve Miller wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I downloaded everything labeled "base" and whatever else I wanted
from a Cygwin mirror...
> >
> >...
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Steve