Re: install from cd

Re: install from cd

[fergus]

Max wrote:

setup.exe
setup.ini    <--- important
release/*

I found that for installation on W98/SE this CD architecture didn't work
properly. But

Cyg0/setup.exe
Cyg0/setup.ini
Cyg0/release/*

worked just fine. (Substitute any name you like for the directory Cyg0/.) I
haven't a clue why one architecture works where the other fails.

Fergus


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RE: install from cd

[John Morrison]

> I found that for installation on W98/SE this CD architecture didn't work
> properly. But
> 
> Cyg0/setup.exe
> Cyg0/setup.ini
> Cyg0/release/*
> 
> worked just fine. (Substitute any name you like for the directory 
> Cyg0/.) I
> haven't a clue why one architecture works where the other fails.

When an application gets it's executable path from windows, for
example d:\Cyg0\setup.exe, windows returns d:\Cyg0\, when requested
for d:\setup.exe, windows returns d:.  I don't know why, but theres
probably a check for a missing '\' missing inside setup.exe.

If I get time, I'll try and take a look.  No promises though :)

J.

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install from cd

[Adriane Leal]

Hello,

I would like to install cygwin for a client which has
no internet access. I sent a cd with the setup.exe
program and the wanted packages. This installation
works well on my windows NT machine, but did not
work his machine (program halts before entering
the sellection of packages with the standard Microsoft
error: this program found an error and has to close).

I am thinking two solutions:

1) install manually, sending a zip file of c:\cygwin.
The problem is that cygwin stores information in the
Windows Registry and people don't want me to touch
manually the registry of the machine (they say it is
too dangerous). Is it possible to make cygwin work
without using the registry?

2) recreate a installion cd. Do you have an idea of
why the error occured? Is there a safe way to create
an installation cd? I just need default packages
plus perl. 

The additional difficulty is the cygwin is not a
package supported by the IT department of the company
and they are looking for a reason to forbid me of 
using it.

Thank you very much,
Adriane


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Re: install from cd

[Max Bowsher]

Adriane Leal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to install cygwin for a client which has
> no internet access. I sent a cd with the setup.exe
> program and the wanted packages. This installation
> works well on my windows NT machine, but did not
> work his machine (program halts before entering
> the sellection of packages with the standard Microsoft
> error: this program found an error and has to close).
> 
> I am thinking two solutions:
> 
> 1) install manually, sending a zip file of c:\cygwin.
> The problem is that cygwin stores information in the
> Windows Registry and people don't want me to touch
> manually the registry of the machine (they say it is
> too dangerous). Is it possible to make cygwin work
> without using the registry?

Doable, but very messy.

> 2) recreate a installion cd. Do you have an idea of
> why the error occured?

Do you have the current version of setup.exe? (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe)

> Is there a safe way to create
> an installation cd? I just need default packages
> plus perl.

setup.exe
setup.ini    <--- important
release/*

Max.



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