From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18518 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2013 08:32:39 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 18507 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jun 2013 08:32:39 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,TW_CG autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:32:38 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 96AF85200D9; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:32:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:33:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: offline cygwin install question Message-ID: <20130627083233.GI6966@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <51CB4C14.4030909@molconn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51CB4C14.4030909@molconn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00659.txt.bz2 On Jun 26 16:16, LMH wrote: > I have a win7 64-bit machine that is not online and I want to update > the cygwin install. What is the best method for doing this? Can I > just copy the current cygwin install off of my XP 32-bit machine and > drop it into the 64-bit win7 rig, or will that create a problem? The easiest way, especially if you have more than one machine, is IMHO to create a local mirror of the Cygwin distro first: mkdir cygwin rsync -av --delete-after cygwin.com:cygwin/ cygwin This creates a local mirror of the 32 and 64 bit Cygwin versions. The 32 bit version is more complete and runs on 32 and 64 bit, as cgf pointed out. The 64 bit version is not as complete yet as the 32 bit version, but it's pretty stable already and a mirror of that only takes 9 Gigs: mkdir -p cygwin/64bit rsync -av --delete-after cygwin.com:cygwin/64bit cygwin/64bit Copy this stuff over to an USB drive. If you want to use the 64 bit release, there's setup64.exe already in the cygwin/64bit directory. If you want to use the 32 bit release, you also have to copy http://cygwin.com/setup.exe to the USB drive. Now, on the offline machine, plug in the USB drive (let's use u: as drive letter as in cgf's example), and run either setup.exe for 32 bit or setup64.exe for the 64 bit release. Note that, if it already *has* a Cygwin install, it's almost 100% sure that it's the 32 bit release. So, run setup.exe in this case. In the second dialog, choose "Install from Locale Directory". In the fourth dialog, choose U:\cygwin as "Local Package Directory". The rest should work as usual. HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer 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