RE: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method

[Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG <keenwa@eglin.af.mil>]

I guess I didn't make what I was trying to do very clear.
In light of recent....frustrations about using setup.exe,
to generate a Cygwin install CD, I took it as an
intellectual excercise to think of a really simple
way to do the operation, that works with common Windows
tools, and well, it works.

I went with an Explorer based approach to keep it point
and click.  I know there are much better ways to perform
ftp operations, but again I was trying to keep it simple.
I always kept my own limited mental capabilities in mind
here, so if it looks dumb, now you know why.

Wayne (the ultimate dummy test) Keen



-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:52 PM
To: Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG; 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method


At 01:28 PM 5/30/2002, Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG wrote:
>A simple and crude method that appear to work for me for creating a Cygwin
>install CD for non-networked or classified (gulp) machines.
>(Warning, this is crude and takes some connect time. It involves less
>clicks though!)
>
>(1) I use explorer to go to the ftp side of my favorite mirror house.
>(2) I download the contents of the release directory into a release
>     directory in my cygtemp directory.
>(3) Once (2) is done, I copy setup.exe and setup.ini into my
>     cygtemp directory.
>(4) I burn the Cygtemp directory to CD.  I have been able to do
>     incremental (not full) setups on machines running setup.exe
>     from the CD.
>
>Again, this is crude, and takes some time (mostly unattended).
>The process (2) downloads everything, including source, so
>you end up downloading over 500 megabytes.
>
>I do find that when the ftp process dies (and it always does at
>some point for me), I find it fairly easy to see where it died,
>and restart it where it left off. (Funny note, after one of these
>restarts this morning, thje first estimate on download time
>was 1 day, 10 hours.....next was 5 minutes)
>
>Crude and unrefined, but it seems to work, and its easy
>to say "get everything", even for an IQ challenged Ph.D.


You might like wget then, if you get lots of disconnections.  It can
reconnect automatically and pick up where it left off.  A great time
saver for the highly automated! ;-)




Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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