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Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again?
Andrey Repin <anrdaemon <at> freemail.ru> writes:
>> For the downloaded packages from which I would create an installation CD, I
>> created c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg. I chose "Download without installing" in
>> setup.exe and "Reinstall" in the Select Packages phase. However, the
>> download fails repeatedly regardless of the mirror specified. Fortunately,
>> in the initial download attempt, most of the download was completed before
>> the failure. In order to fetch only the missing packages, I identified the
>> missing packages...
<...snip...>
>> Unfortunately, I can only select Keep or Uninstall. There is no choice to
>> Reinstall regardless of whether the Keep or Cur radio buttons are selected.
<...snip...>
> Simple solution would be to remove these packages from cache and download them
> anew, when you doing a new install.
Hmmm. Never realized it was that simple. I shall give it a try. And of
course, keep close tabs on the person running setup on my behalf so that we get
the missing packages.
Thanks, Andrey!
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