setting up cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Jan 31 11:22:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:17:13AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>From: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz@yahoo.com>
>
>> In short, if I want everything in minimal effort (I
>> don't want to go through all of them and click
>> retrieve and select the source), what should I do?
>
>Use a mirroring tool, not setup.exe. Setup.exe is designed for
>installing cygwin, not making mirrors of everything.

Bingo.

People seem to be fixating on setup.exe when there are other tools that
are probably more appropriate.

cgf

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