CD for installation

[Max Bowsher]

Raimund Hook wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just downloaded the entire package directory from a cygwin
> mirror site, with the aim to get cygwin onto a CD for installation.
>
> Setup.exe recognises everything great, and I can run the installation
> off my hard drive using a local package install. However, the entire
> size of the package directory is roughly 1GB.
>
> Is there any way I can split this onto 2 CD's? and still be able to
> install of the CDs? or do I need to then copy the CD's to a local
> directory for installation?

Just don't include old versions of packages.

Minus [prev] versions, release/ is ~ 575MB.


Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl will easily filter out those packages marked
[prev] in setup.ini.

http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/


Max.


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