Setup "Download from Internet" Question
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Thu Feb 27 23:23:00 GMT 2003
David Starks-Browning wrote:
> On Thursday 27 Feb 03, BB writes:
>> As a followup question, In order to create a CD to install from,
>> would it be better to simply ftp the files from one of the mirror
>> sites.
>
> Yes.
Partially. A plain FTP mirror will get you current and previous versions of
every package, and all that won't fit on a CD. Use clean_setup.pl
http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ to parse setup.ini and build a list
of current package files to download.
>
>> What would the
>> correct directory structure have to be for setup to install from the
>> d:\cygwin-setup as a local source assuming d: was a cd? Would this
>> be enough?
>>
>> d:\setup.exe
>> d:\cygwin-setup\setup.ini
>> d:\cygwin-setup\release\...
>
> Yes, if what you mean to convey is that you follow the full
> sub-directory structure under release.
>
> The tricky part is providing setup.exe with the right "download path"
> to get setup to pull things from the CD. Unless someone chimes in
> with the right answer, you might have to experiment a bit.
Just put setup.exe in the same dir as setup.ini and release/
Don't put those 3 in the root of the CD, though, I think someone had
problems with that.
Max.
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