Installation from hardisk, is it possible?

[steven woody]

On 8/22/06, Mike Fahlbusch <mcf@chariot.net.au> wrote:
> steven woody wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i am going to install a copy of cygwin in my notebook, but for some
> > reasons the computer can not access internet, so i think i have to
> > download a full suites of installation files on to my desktop computer
> > and then transfer them to the notebook before i can install from
> > there. is it possible and how?  thanks.
>
> Because my old Pentium W98SE computer doesn't have enough hard disk
> space to hold the cygwin setup files, I do it this way:
>
> - download the latest cygwin setup file to your desktop computer.  (I've
> tried installing cygwin over the network.  Although setup can see the
> remote folder, it won't accept a pathname that doesn't start with a
> drive letter.)
> - use it to download the cygwin files to your HD in its own folder
> (cygwin setup.exe gives the choice of downloading files to HD,
> installing cygwin from the Internet or installing cygwin from HD)
> - burn the cygwin folder to CD or preferably DVD, whatever your laptop
> has (there is apparently over 1 Gb of cygwin files.  However if you
> download the default cygwin files it should fit on a CD.)
> - make sure the setup.exe file is on the CD
> - put the cygwin CD in the laptop and copy the setup file only to its
> own folder on the HD
> - you should now be able to run the setup program off the laptop HD,
> point it at the CD cygwin folder and install cygwin as per usual
> - presumably this would also work with a large USB memory stick, but I
> can't try it.

good idea. thank you!

>
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