On 18 Jun, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The mirror is 1.2Gb, and I wanted to just write a copy of the install > set to take home. So my idea was to choose "download from internet", > and burn that. > > Trouble is, that option results in a 1Mb download (I think all it does > is download setup.exe).
Fergus replied: > Even a "Download from Internet" will only download what you need. If your > machine has an up-to-date Cygwin installation then you don't need anything > and so nothing (except the current setup.ini) will be downloaded. > > There are ways of downloading an installation set that involve temporarily > blinding Windows to your installed Cygwin. Not difficult. Discussed on the > mailing list at various times ... can be more specific if you want. > > Fergus Yes, please, Fergus, I would like to know. Even knowing a Subject line to search for in the archive would be fine. luke PS: Apologies for not following up on this staright away. I only just found the reply, because I only recently (partly) worked out what caused all list mail to me from Cygwin to be dumped to /dev/null, starting about a month ago. So I only just now visited the archive to see if anyone had replied. :-( (The cause seems related to file size limits that can hit cat when appending to a large file.) -- 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/