Using a Mac to download Cygwin to Windows machine

Using a Mac to download Cygwin to Windows machine

[Robert Lewis]

Hello,

I am new here, and I thought I posted this yesterday. Apparently it didn't go through.

I want to install Cygwin on a Windows machine that does not have internet access. I want to use my Mac to download everything for Cygwin, then move all the files to the Windows machine with a flash drive. How do I do this?

I assume I would then run setup.exe on the Windows machine, and it will find all the files it needs on the flash drive. If necessary, I would of course copy all the files to the Windows computer. Please note, I DO NOT want to install Cygwin on the Mac.

R Lewis


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Re: Using a Mac to download Cygwin to Windows machine

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 27 08:58, Robert Lewis wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am new here, and I thought I posted this yesterday. Apparently it
> didn't go through.
> 
> I want to install Cygwin on a Windows machine that does not have
> internet access. I want to use my Mac to download everything for
> Cygwin, then move all the files to the Windows machine with a flash
> drive. How do I do this?

Use rsync to create a copy of the directory structure from one of
the Cygwin mirrors.  You can skip the "release-legacy" and the
"unsupported" subdirectories.

> I assume I would then run setup.exe on the Windows machine, and it
> will find all the files it needs on the flash drive.

Right.  When you start setup, choose "Install from Local Directory".
As "Local Package Directory", enter the path to the flash drive
directory which contains the setup.ini file.


Corinna

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