From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23325 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2011 09:22:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 23182 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Nov 2011 09:21:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:21:45 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id E65022C029E; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:21:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:28:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using a Mac to download Cygwin to Windows machine Message-ID: <20111128092141.GA23036@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1322413088.73369.YahooMailClassic@web122503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1322413088.73369.YahooMailClassic@web122503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00413.txt.bz2 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple