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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 79
- From: Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at openminddev dot net>
- To: "Pille Geert (bizvdm)" <geert dot pille at vandemoortele dot com>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:15:46 +1100
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 79
- References: <2FAEFC2A851BD211AD820008C7286BA4031E5B27@NBIZ205>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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.