From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2439 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2005 20:27:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 2382 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2005 20:27:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2005 20:27:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2MKR9W3025235; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:27:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:05:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: raahi 108 cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question regarding cygwin setup In-Reply-To: <1a54c6f70503221214c9fe11d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1a54c6f70503221214c9fe11d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00825.txt.bz2 On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, raahi 108 wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Question regarding installing Cygwin. > > I usually select packages/app from the setup menu. > A couple of times i have encountered the problem, wherein > the server/ftp site is busy or its unavailable. I almost spend like > 10-15 mins customizing the whole setup, and selecting the > packages which i need to install. But if the mirror is not working, > the selections that i made are lost. > > What i was wondering is, is there a way to save the 'selection' > to a file so that even if a particular mirror doesn't work, i can > select other mirror and invoke the 'selections' made before? > In this way, i don't have to browse the list again to select the > packages i require. Unfortunately, setup has no option to save the selection list. Pressing the Back button and changing the mirror may or may not keep your current selections. In any case, this problem should only happen if the mirror goes down in the middle of the download, since it had to have been available to get the setup.bz2 file. You could try selecting multiple mirrors from the mirror list (by holding Ctrl while selecting mirrors) -- that way, if one is unavailable, setup will automatically try another. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/