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Re: Downloading only and updating on a flash drive problem


<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> Reformatted.

mtdg wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
mtdg wrote:
I downloaded only cygwin to a flash drive. Later when I tried to do
another
download on a different PC it did not find any of the previous download
and
told me I needed everything.
Did you point it at the same download directory on the flash drive?  Did
you
select the same mirror?
Yes, but as I said because the drive letter had changed on the flash drive
is was really a 'different' directory if you see what I mean

i.e. the inital download was to f:\cygwin\download and the second time it
was to h:\cygwin\download

It has less to do with where you put the download directory than whether 'c:\cygwin\etc\setup' exists and is populated. If you move to a new machine, most likely this directory (structure) doesn't exist and, even if it does, it's likely to be different than the first machine. The moral of the story? <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.mirror>

HTH,

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