downloading cygwin from linux

Mikael mindcooler@gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 18:23:00 GMT 2005


"community help" wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I tried to download cygwin from a linux machine but
> with no success. Is there any way to download every
> thing at a time and install it later on a windows
> machine?
> I'm trying to download cygwin from work where i have a
> linux system and i want to install it at home where i
> have windows but no internet connection.
>
> PS: executing setup.exe in linux does not work. So
> there must be an other way.
>
> Thank you
>
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I just picked a fast mirror, fired up my favorite FTP program, downloaded 
the setup.exe and the the setup.ini and everything in the release 
subdirectory, burnt it to a DVD. You can also burn in to CD-Rs but then you 
have to split it up on 3-4 discs and reconstruct it back home. Speaking from 
memory now so I may have omitted some file I downloaded from the ftp site, 
but it wasn't hard figuring out what I need iirc.

/ M 




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