How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

[Thomas Schweikle]

Hi!

How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus 
not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from "ftp.cygwin.com"?

"setup.exe" seems not to have the ability to tell at startup which 
ftp-server should be used. Any Idea how to make "setup.exe" use ftp 
servers without fetching the mirror-list from "ftp.cygwin.com"?

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Thomas


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Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:44:20PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
>How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus 
>not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from "ftp.cygwin.com"?

You can't.

cgf

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Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

[Andrew Markebo]

/ "Thomas Schweikle" <tschweikle@fiducia.de> wrote:
| Hi!
| 
| How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus 
| not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from "ftp.cygwin.com"?

One way, dirty tricks inc., could be to set up a fake ftp.cygwin.com
on your network that serves the missing files.. 

        /Andy

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Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

[David T-G]

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Thomas --

...and then Thomas Schweikle said...
% 
% Hi!

Hello!


% 
% How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus 
% not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from "ftp.cygwin.com"?

Do you have all of the files locally already, or are you limited by a
firewall to ftp but not http?


% 
% "setup.exe" seems not to have the ability to tell at startup which 
% ftp-server should be used. Any Idea how to make "setup.exe" use ftp 
% servers without fetching the mirror-list from "ftp.cygwin.com"?

If you can get to the list of mirrors somehow, I believe you can put a
server into either the ini file or the registry and it will use that one.
I also know that you only need ftp for downloading; if you install from a
local dir then it doesn't care about the 'net.  You might just use curl
or wget to pull down the source tree, a copy of setup (whatever its
number is today :-) and the setup.ini file and then do a local install,
perhaps from a CD that you make to get it over to this crippled computer.


% 
% -- 
% Thomas


HTH & HAND

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Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

[Thomas Schweikle]

Hi!



Gesendet von:   Eric Hanchrow <offby1@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>
An:     "Thomas Schweikle" <tschweikle@fiducia.de>
Kopie: 
Thema:  Re: How to install from an ftp server if internet isn't reachable?

>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle@fiducia.de> writes:
>
> Thomas> How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach
> Thomas> the internet
>
> You can't, by definition.

Might be a good idea to change this. I can reach the internet from one PC, 
but not from the other. Would be nice if I could use ftp to install from a 
reachable server (not equiped with samba) to install from. Faking IP via 
"hosts" will allways work... but I consider this "not gentlemen like". I 
would like to see some option to tell setup it has to use a specific 
ftp-server to connect to, assuming this an exact mirror of 
"ftp://sources.redhat.com/cygwin". If I could specify an URL this would be 
really nice!

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