Ok - I'm downloading the releases/ folder and all its children. This means I'm grabbing a whole bunch of source tarballs and tarballs for previous versions, so it's probably 4x as big as necessary, but so be it.
Thanks for the help. > That's exactly right, you want to download all the files and directories > that you see there. > What someone else is suggesting is that you use a utility that will > download the whole thing, so you don't have to browse each folder and > manually click each one of them to download. > Teleport pro is a windows utility that will do this, but it's commercial, > wget may be your best option if you have access to a linux box or if you > can use google to find an alternative, that would work too. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can you dumb it down for me a little more? >> >> I don't have a wget tool installed on w2k desktop. If I want to use >> this >> mirror: >> >> http://cygwin.get-software.com/ >> >> And the top folder on that mirror shows these files: >> >> Parent Directory 07-May-2003 04:45 - >> mail-archives/ 09-May-2003 05:29 - >> md5.sum 08-May-2003 20:54 1k >> release/ 09-May-2003 05:44 - >> setup.bz2 08-May-2003 20:10 45k >> setup.exe 07-Apr-2003 06:20 253k >> setup.exe.old 08-Mar-2003 17:08 180k >> setup.ini 08-May-2003 20:10 176k >> tmp/ 09-May-2003 05:29 - >> xfree/ 09-May-2003 05:29 - >> >> What should folder should I grab? Should I grab everything in the >> release >> folder and download it into a folder on my computer called >> 'cygwin_packages_I_downloaded'? >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > Yes. You can download the site, and use the local dir to install >> > >> > 1) Choose a mirror from the mirror list at wwww.cygwin.com >> > 2) download the entire file tree. Use wget or other similar tool >> > 3) select install from local directory >> > >> > >> > Orginal ------------- >> > Hi - >> > >> > >> > The proxy server at work is really fussy and no matter what I try, I >> > can't get the setup.exe that I pulled of the cygwin website to >> > successfully connect. >> > >> > Is there a way to install without having the installer be able to >> > connect to the internet? For example, can I download all the >> packages I >> > need, then fire up the installer, and then point it at that >> directory? >> > >> > How do I do that? >> > >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/