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Re: Installing cygwin NOT from web

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
> At 07:54 2003-03-19, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>> Why can't you download the files using any FTP/HTTP client and
>> operating system you want, transfer the files (or otherwise make
>> them visible) to a Windows system, and only then use setup.exe to
>> install the files from the Windows-visible directory?
> 
> This is quite feasible, but a simple local mirror of the Cygwin
> distribution or any valid subset thereof (itself obtained from one of
> the public mirror sites, of course) will not be suitable for use by
> Setup.exe. There needs to be a renaming applied between the mirror
> host and the local mirror.

No. There is no need for renaming.


Max.


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