RE: Fwd: RE: [debian-knoppix] Software recommendations for LinuxTag DVD edition?
Hmmm, I see. Well, I could give you some mirrors
(<http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html>) to the stuff...
...but then you will have *all* packages (including previous and test) which
is kind of heavy weight.
A mirror that works pretty well:
ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/
Try running setup.exe from wine to download the distro.
OR
Another approach would be to run Randall Schulz's mkcygwget from Linux to
download the entire Cygwin tree:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00704/mkcygwget>
This method is described at
<http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/>
"Note that you may need to edit the --cut-dirs= option depending on your
mirror. You only want the 'release' subdirectory within your ftp%3a%2f%2f...
directory.
This will create a directory in the format expected by setup.exe and a
script called cygwget that consists of commands to wget."
It is recommended to keep the directory structure so that setup.exe is able
to recognize the packages. Important is the setup.ini file and the release
tree. You must have the same setup.exe and setup.ini files that go with the
downloaded packages!
You may want to have a resulting dir structure on the DVD like this:
<CDROM>:\cygwin contains setup.exe
<CDROM>:\cygwin\cygwin setup.ini
<CDROM>:\cygwin\cygwin\release subdirectories of all packages
HTH,
Andreas
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Michael Kleinhenz [mailto:kleinhenz@linuxtag.org]
> Enviado el: Lunes, 16 de Junio de 2003 10:39 a.m.
> Para: Andreas
> CC: debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org
> Asunto: Re: Fwd: RE: [debian-knoppix] Software recommendations for
> LinuxTag DVD edition?
>
>
>
> > You should read the content of the web page more carefully:
> > "The setup.exe utility, which is downloaded when you click on the above
> > link, tracks the versions of all installed components and provides the
> > mechanism for installing or updating everything. Run this
> program any time
> > you want to install a cygwin package."
> >
> > The 'setup.exe' is indeed the installer which downloads the binary and
> > source packages into a specified directory as you can read.
> > Fire up 'setup.exe' a second time to install from this dir.
> >
> > It is simple and straightforward...
>
> Not for a static DVD distribution. I don't have a Windows here to run
> setup.exe and I don't know if it downloads all necessary files if it
> "tracks the versions of all installed components" of a local Windows
> installation. Isn't there a simple "download all" distribution
> directory??
>
> --
> Michael Kleinhenz LinuxTag 2003 - Europes largest Linux Expo
> Marketing & Sales Where .com meets .org
> kleinhenz@linuxtag.org http://www.linuxtag.org/
> Hiroshima '45 - Czernobyl '86 - Windows '95
>
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