From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16818 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2006 17:50:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 16810 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2006 17:50:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:50:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6VHoeUT017028; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:50:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:35:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Dr. Christoph Gille" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: re: cygwin In-Reply-To: <61152.84.190.50.192.1154366859.squirrel@webmail.charite.de> Message-ID: References: <61152.84.190.50.192.1154366859.squirrel@webmail.charite.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00978.txt.bz2 Christoph, Please do not send private email with Cygwin questions unless specifically requested. Read for details. I set my Reply-To: header for a reason -- please make sure your mailer respects it. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Dr. Christoph Gille wrote: > Dear Igor, > > many thanks for your help, I had a few tests and I guess it will work. > > I will start setup.exe interactively with the options -l and -R to give > the user the chance to chose a close mirror and to use a Proxy. > > I do not expect that setup.exe is able to fetch the proxy setting from > IE or to select the closest mirror so better I run it interactively at > the first time. When "Use IE5 Settings" is selected, setup will not *copy* settings from IE -- it will actually *use* IE to connect and retrieve documents, with all the default settings. However, the command-line options only specify defaults -- the user is free to change those defaults inside the setup session. > Subsequently I append the "gcc-core" to the file "installed.db" > and start a quiet setup.exe run with option -q. Make sure installed.db actually *exists* before doing this. > I am sure it will work. > Thanks again for your help > Christoph You're welcome, glad it helped. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/