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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 79


On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:09 pm, Pille Geert (bizvdm) wrote:
> Hallo Rasjid,
>
> Update Windows?  Do you mean that µicro$oft has released something new
> since NT 4.0 ????
>
> ;-)
>
> We can't access porn-sites, snif, or download executables or anything
> bigger than 2Mb.  We couldn't update the PC's since we have no
> administator's rights.  I could easily install Linux if I wanted to, but
> this is not my PC, it's my customer's.
>
> But thanks for the setup.exe, I've started it, now let's see if it gets
> through.  Pure http might work, but if there is any ftp involved, I may as
> well forget it.

Just select a http mirror, and setup will all be http.

If that fails, if you have a copy of Knoppix about, then you can boot into 
Linux without touching the hard-drive, and then try using Rsync to get 
Cygwin-XFree.

Rasjid.


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