Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

2002-03-17 Thread Andrew Markebo
| - if all this is not possible, is there anybody out there who has written a | nice installation-skript that installs xfree after cygwin is installed (this | should not be too difficult for the average pupil) and can be edited to | install some software too? If not, I will probably try to writ

Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

2002-03-18 Thread matt rice
dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries can easily be converted into a cygwin installer package.. you need to do 2 things... create a cygwin package and create a hint file to install it... download the cygwin binaries uncompress them all... this should convert the cygwin Xfree86 bina

Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

2002-03-18 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
--- matt rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries > can easily be > converted into a cygwin installer package.. if this is so easy, why don't we have now one official ? XFree86 4.2.0 is on the servers since several months if I remember correct... ..

Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

2002-03-18 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Sylvain Petreolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | --- matt rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : | > dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries | > can easily be | > converted into a cygwin installer package.. | | if this is so easy, why don't we have now one official | ? | XFree86 4.2.0 is

RE: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

2002-03-18 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:44 PM > First thoughts, do a package with all required tgz's and then > do packages with the fonts not required.. docs.. > > Hmm what more is needed?? ;-) Here's the easiest way

Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

2002-03-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > if this is so easy, why don't we have now one official? > XFree86 4.2.0 is on the servers since several months > if I remember correct... > ... and at this day we only have Xinstall.sh . Because nobody had the time to do and test it. You are welcom

Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

2002-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:49:05PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:44 PM > >>First thoughts, do a package with all required tgz's and then >>do packages with the fonts not required.. doc