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Re: "local install"?
Markus,
At 07:31 2002-03-01, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Toni Mueller writes:
> > So my current guess is that I can download some stuff using eg. my Linux
> > workstation, put them on CD and then move the CD to the W2k box for
> > local installation there. Can anyone please confirm that? Can anyone
> > please tell me which version of setup.exe I should get to be able to
> > install from a local directory?
>
>You lose a lot of the functionality of setup.exe if you do it this way but
>you can certainly do this if you want to have a hard time.
I don't understand this. You get maximum flexibility by separate "Download
from Internet" and "Install from Local Directory" operations. That way you
can download sources and have them at hand without unconditionally
installing them.
By copying my local installation cache to a CD, I can save others very
large downloads.
I cannot see this as a loss of functionality.
Can you tell me some functionality only available when one uses "Install
from Internet?"
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
>...
>
>regards,
>Markus
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