Installing w/o setup.ini
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Mon Nov 25 13:56:00 GMT 2002
aschwarz1309@att.net <aschwarz1309@att.net> wrote:
> I am attempting to install Cygwin from a CD-ROM containing downloaded
> Cygwin files (src and bin) but which does not have a
> setup.ini/setup.hint. I do not have a Cygwin/Unix enabled computer or
> access to the net and can't use, e.g., Polley Christopher W. (8 Nov
> 2002) script to generate a .ini file. Is there any way to do an
> installation?
>
> Can I retrieve .ini/.hint files from ftp sites? How?
First: setup.hint files are for packagers only *not* for end users.
Why not just run setup.exe, and let it download a setup.ini for you?
Max.
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