rsync under cygwin too slow
Further to my earlier thread (Re: ls -lR too slow) which seems to have died, I tried backing up my laptop to smbshared folder on desktop using rsync. Both machines are running Vista+SP1 and on gigabit LAN sitting next to each other. The following statistics displayed by rsync is completely misleading: rsync -rtuplg --stats --verbose --progress --modify-window=2 /cygdrive/c/localfolder /cygdrive/z/backups/ ... ... Number of files: 24518 Number of files transferred: 0 Total file size: 5805610746 bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 497277 File list generation time: 188.978 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 644377 Total bytes received: 147104 sent 644377 bytes received 147104 bytes 454.22 bytes/sec total size is 5805610746 speedup is 7335.12 The local and remote folders were already synchronized, that is why 0 files were transferred. File list generation did take only 3 minutes but the whole process took more than 1.5 hours to finish and consumed a whopping 1.9 GB of downloaded bytes and 0.4 GB of uploaded bytes as per network counters. For what? Zero files, Zero bytes of file data. As far as I can see, rsync under cygwin is also too slow to be useful. Vinod -- 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/
ls -lR too slow
I have a shared folder on my desktop which I have mapped as Z: drive on my laptop. Both machines are running Vista+SP1. My laptop has a recent version of Cygwin. When I do ls -lR /cygdrive/z it takes very long. There are only about 700 files on Z: totalling only 100 MB. When I monitor network counters on laptop, I see that a whopping 90 MB were downloaded for a payload (file list) of only 60 KB. Out of curiosity, I did the same experiment between two linux machines configured as NFS client+server. The ls -lR command on very similar directory tree whet very fast and only 0.5 MB were downloaded for the same payload. Cygwin was about 200 times slower. Is that normal? Vinod -- 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/
Re: ls -lR too slow
Dave Korn wrote: Vinod Gupta wrote: When I do ls -lR /cygdrive/z it takes very long. There are only about 700 files on Z: totalling only 100 MB. When I monitor network counters on laptop, I see that a whopping 90 MB were downloaded for a payload (file list) of only 60 KB. Out of curiosity, I did the same experiment between two linux machines configured as NFS client+server. Perhaps more instructive would be to compare with typing DIR Z: in a DOS prompt. How much time does that take, and how much network traffic does it generate, by comparison? If the OP is looking for truer comparisons with Linux, I would say that using SAMBA on Linux is a better test than NFS. Of course, Cygwin is expected to be slower than Linux regardless. In terms of overall time/traffic with Cygwin, I'd recommend comparing the results of DIR Z: that Dave recommends above to ls /cygdrive/z (or DIR /S Z: to ls -R /cygdrive/z). If you need to use -l with ls and remote SAMBA shares, I'd recommend adding smbntsec to your CYGWIN environment variable. This should limit file accesses that -l (and other flags) can require. See the link below for more info: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ smbntsec made a huge difference, a factor of 10x! ls -lR /cygdrive/z still transferred 10 MB, 50x more than DIR /S Z: but far better than 400x it was doing with nosmbntsec. It improves rsync too which does some thing similar to ls -lR to get file mtime and size etc to filter files. I think 50x factor sounds still too high. I thought the Cygwin overheads were of the order of 3x or so. Can we squeeze another order of magnitude? Thanks Larry, Vinod -- 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/
Re: Cygwin problems under Vista
So, I guess every one in Cygwin community is happily running Cygwin and Cygwin-X under Windows Vista. That is a great news! It seems only I missed the train :-( Vinod On 2008-03-20 15:50, Vinod Gupta wrote: I see that quite a few people have experienced problems running cygwin and applications like XFree86 server under Windows Vista. We have been using Cygwin under XP for may years and would love to continue using it under Vista. I will appreciate suggestions to the following questions: 1) Some people have suggested running rebaseall under ash. I tried it and it helps. Shall I be required to rebaseall every time there are new versions of DLLs released? Why not make it a part of cygwin installer? 2) It seems there is no reliable fix for XFree86 and people have suggested Xming which works fine for me. While XFree86 was integrated with Cywin's main installer which was a huge advantage. Is there any way to replace XFree86 by Xming so that only Xming packages are installed/updated. Vinod -- 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/
Cygwin problems under Vista
I see that quite a few people have experienced problems running cygwin and applications like XFree86 server under Windows Vista. We have been using Cygwin under XP for may years and would love to continue using it under Vista. I will appreciate suggestions to the following questions: 1) Some people have suggested running rebaseall under ash. I tried it and it helps. Shall I be required to rebaseall every time there are new versions of DLLs released? Why not make it a part of cygwin installer? 2) It seems there is no reliable fix for XFree86 and people have suggested Xming which works fine for me. While XFree86 was integrated with Cywin's main installer which was a huge advantage. Is there any way to replace XFree86 by Xming so that only Xming packages are installed/updated. Vinod -- 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/
Re: Escape sequences are not interpreted
On 2007-03-15 23:46, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Vinod Gupta wrote:
When I look at a man page in a bash window under cygwin, I see that
video escape sequences are not interpreted. My TERM is set to xterm in
an xterm window and cygwin in a DOS window. LANG variables are set to
en_US. As an example, here are a few lines from the screen dump of man
cygwin
INTRO(3)CygwinINTRO(3)
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
ESC[1mintro ESC[22m- Introduction to the Cygwin API
ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
ESC[1mCygwin ESC[22mis a Linux-like environment for Windows. It
consists of two parts:
...
...
If I echo ${ESCSEQ} some-text then the escape sequence is correctly
interpreted. Problem occurs only during man pages.
Any suggestions?
Sure. A Google search for cygwin man esc produces quite a few hits with
a fix for this. In particular, the most recent suggestions are to check
the values of PAGER and MANPAGER (which we would have seen had you
followed
My PAGER variable was set to less I have changed it to less -r that
fixed the problem.
Thanks,
Vinod
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Escape sequences are not interpreted
When I look at a man page in a bash window under cygwin, I see that
video escape sequences are not interpreted. My TERM is set to xterm in
an xterm window and cygwin in a DOS window. LANG variables are set to
en_US. As an example, here are a few lines from the screen dump of man
cygwin
INTRO(3)Cygwin
INTRO(3)
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
ESC[1mintro ESC[22m- Introduction to the Cygwin API
ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
ESC[1mCygwin ESC[22mis a Linux-like environment for Windows.
It consists of two parts:
...
...
If I echo ${ESCSEQ} some-text then the escape sequence is correctly
interpreted. Problem occurs only during man pages.
Any suggestions?
Vinod
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Cygwin speed
I ran the following loop under bash on three different machines: i=100 while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do j=$(((i/3+i*3)**3)) i=$((i-1)) done Here is how long it took: CPU OSTime (secs) --- -- P4/3.2GHz Linux RHEL4 41 Core Duo/2.2GHz Mac OSX 10.4 43 Core Duo/2.4GHz WinXP+Cygwin107 Cygwin was a slow by a factor of 3x. Is that normal? Vinod -- 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/
Re: Un-attended install ALL
All this pain, just because some one did not include --InstallAll option to setup.exe?? As the saying goes, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC. Of course, you can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are addressed by a snapshot http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/. Thanks Lary. When I ran the latest setup-2.551.exe --help I got no output at all. Vinod -- 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/
Re: Un-attended install ALL
The local packages folder has two mirrors - the main (http%3a%2f.../) and mymirror/ (which has only this empty allpackage). How do I tell setup.exe to look inside BOTH mirrors? Type in the name of your mirror site when you are asked for the mirrors you wish to use. I am installing from local packages folder containing two mirrors having different packages, not from Internet. I tried: setup.exe -L -l mirror1_folder -l mirror2_folder it installed from mirror2_folder only. How do I force it to use BOTH? Vinod -- 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/
Re: Un-attended install ALL
On 2006-10-04 11:55, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: All this pain, just because some one did not include --InstallAll option to setup.exe?? As the saying goes, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC. Of course, you can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are addressed by a snapshot http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/. Thanks Lary. When I ran the latest setup-2.551.exe --help I got no output at all. Check the log file. Igor And where that log is supposed to be? Surely not /var/log/setup.log because cygwin is not yet installed. Moreover, why should the output of setup-2.551.exe --help be sent to any log file? Vinod -- 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/
Re: Un-attended install ALL
Vinod Gupta wrote: Vinod K Gupta wrote: We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using setup.exe -q -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we tell setup to install ALL available packages? Lary Hall wrote: There are many ways but the easiest is to create a setup.hint file with an empty package that's part of the Base category. Then list all the packages you want to install as its dependencies. Obviously, you can leave out other base packages. Voila! :-) Thanks Lary, I am not sure what you mean by empty package and how do you make it known to the installer? If I create a setup.hint and copy it to, say, release\base-files\, will that work? This sounds like fooling the installer. I can't believe that there is nothing like --InstallAll option to the setup.exe installer. Lary Hall wrote: Fooling the installer into believing there is another package to install? Yes, that should be outlawed. ;-) Whatever you want to call it, this is the way to do it. See: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html if you haven't already. I tried but failed :( I create allpackage as per instructions, here are contents: # cd mymirror # ls -l release/allpackage/ total 1.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 650 2006-10-03 15:45 setup.hint # cat release/allpackage/setup.hint @ allpackage sdesc: Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages ldesc: Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages category: Base requires: X11 _update-info-dir alternatives ash base-files base-passwd bash binutils bzip2 cabextract coreutils crypt cygrunsrv cygutils cygwin cygwin-doc d db diffutils editrights expat file findutils gawk gcc gcc-mingw gdb gdbm gettext grep groff gzip jpeg less libiconv libpng login make man mingw-runtime minires mktemp ncurses openssh openssl pcre perl pine ping pkg-config pkgconfig popt readline run sed sharutils tar tcltk tcsh termcap terminfo texinfo time tnef unzip w32api wget which zip zlib # bunzip setup.bz2 # cat setup # This file is automatically generated. If you edit it, your # edits will be discarded next time the file is generated. # See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details. # Installer still installs only the Base packages. I thought genini did not generate good setup. I copied release/allpackage to main/release/ and added contents of above setup.hint to main/release/setup.ini Installer still installs only the Base packages :( What I am doing wrong? Vinod -- 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/
Re: Un-attended install ALL
On 10/3/2006 10:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: Vinod Gupta wrote: Vinod K Gupta wrote: We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using setup.exe -q -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we tell setup to install ALL available packages? Lary Hall wrote: There are many ways but the easiest is to create a setup.hint file with an empty package that's part of the Base category. Then list all the packages you want to install as its dependencies. Obviously, you can leave out other base packages. Voila! :-) Thanks Lary, I am not sure what you mean by empty package and how do you make it known to the installer? If I create a setup.hint and copy it to, say, release\base-files\, will that work? This sounds like fooling the installer. I can't believe that there is nothing like --InstallAll option to the setup.exe installer. Lary Hall wrote: Fooling the installer into believing there is another package to install? Yes, that should be outlawed. ;-) Whatever you want to call it, this is the way to do it. See: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html if you haven't already. I tried but failed :( I create allpackage as per instructions, here are contents: # cd mymirror # ls -l release/allpackage/ total 1.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2 ^^^ This is one thing that's wrong. You should create an empty tarball and then bzip2 it. The size should be 46 bytes. -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 650 2006-10-03 15:45 setup.hint # cat release/allpackage/setup.hint @ allpackage sdesc: Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages ldesc: Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages category: Base requires: X11 _update-info-dir alternatives ash base-files base-passwd bash binutils bzip2 cabextract coreutils crypt cygrunsrv cygutils cygwin cygwin-doc d db diffutils editrights expat file findutils gawk gcc gcc-mingw gdb gdbm gettext grep groff gzip jpeg less libiconv libpng login make man mingw-runtime minires mktemp ncurses openssh openssl pcre perl pine ping pkg-config pkgconfig popt readline run sed sharutils tar tcltk tcsh termcap terminfo texinfo time tnef unzip w32api wget which zip zlib # bunzip setup.bz2 # cat setup # This file is automatically generated. If you edit it, your # edits will be discarded next time the file is generated. # See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details. # This is another. You should use the genini script to generate setup.ini (and/or setup.bz2, but setup.ini should suffice). Installer still installs only the Base packages. I thought genini did not generate good setup. I copied release/allpackage to main/release/ and added contents of above setup.hint to main/release/setup.ini Installer still installs only the Base packages :( What I am doing wrong? You need more information in setup.ini than what's in your setup.hint. Try browsing any of the mirrors for their setup.ini and use that as a template. Igor OK, I think I found the problem and a work around, if not the solution. The following line must be added to setup.ini even if the allpackage is empty: install: release/allpackage/allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2 The installer is looking at only main/release/, and NOT mymirror/release/. If I add allpackage folder to main/release/ and add contents of setup.hint to main/setup.ini (including install: line) then it works. But this is not a good solution because main/setup.ini will be overwritten next time I update cygwin. The local packages folder has two mirrors - the main (http%3a%2f.../) and mymirror/ (which has only this empty allpackage). How do I tell setup.exe to look inside BOTH mirrors? All this pain, just because some one did not include --InstallAll option to setup.exe?? Vinod -- 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/
Re: Un-attended install ALL
Vinod K Gupta wrote: We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using setup.exe -q -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we tell setup to install ALL available packages? Lary Hall wrote: There are many ways but the easiest is to create a setup.hint file with an empty package that's part of the Base category. Then list all the packages you want to install as its dependencies. Obviously, you can leave out other base packages. Voila! :-) Thanks Lary, I am not sure what you mean by empty package and how do you make it known to the installer? If I create a setup.hint and copy it to, say, release\base-files\, will that work? This sounds like fooling the installer. I can't believe that there is nothing like --InstallAll option to the setup.exe installer. Vinod -- 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/
Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment
C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html I don't have a system against which to check this conjecture, but if you do a DOS attrib on each of these files my guess is that the first is created as a +R symlink and the second as a +S symlink*; and if you do a DOS dir the first will be revealed as a .lnk file and the second will not. It looks to me as though the zipper you're using understands and can re-create files of the first sort, but the second goes wrong. (Or maybe even +S +H which might help explain its invisibility, but don't think so.) For different but similar reasons (the need to copy an entire Cygwin system to other file systems via a DVD which can faithfully transfer +R but not +S files whilst preserving these attributes) I have gone through the system re-creating all original +S symlinks as +R. If the above conjecture is true / looks as though it might be true, and if you think this re-creation might help I can send you the script. Fergus You are right. The first file has R and the second one has S attrib set. So, I guess your script to change all the S attribs to R should work for me too. Could you please send it to me. I am wondering: Why would they set these html files as System files? Why info-zip (or probably any DOS app) can't restore them?? Why WinXP's internal unzipper goes an order of magnitude slower if the archive has S files??? Thanks, Vinod -- 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/
Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment
On 9/25/2006 9:03 AM, Vinod Gupta wrote: C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html [...] I am wondering: Why would they set these html files as System files? Why info-zip (or probably any DOS app) can't restore them?? Why WinXP's internal unzipper goes an order of magnitude slower if the archive has S files??? Thanks, Vinod As I said earlier, I am trying to deploy Cygwin on 100 WinXP machines by zipping C:\cygwin from a reference machine and unzipping the archive on 100 targets. It works but unzipping is painfully slow (takes 45 minutes instead of 4-5). A little deeper look shows that WinXP's builtin unzipper spends almost all the time in the following three folders: C:\cygwin\usr\share\doc\ C:\cygwin\usr\share\qt3\doc\ C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\ I don't need any documentation for Cygwin, nor man pages nor user guides particularly when these three folders constitute only 10% of the total Cygwin disk space but take 90% of the time to unzip. I tried excluding cygwin-doc and the setup stalled at the end of download at _update-info-dir package with an error Download incomplete, retry? Retry failed too. It seems there are some dependencies problems. Which packages should I exclude from installation on the reference machine? Vinod -- 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/
Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment
Yes. You're better off setting up a package server. See: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html From this you can control the packages installed but can use 'setup.exe' to install, which understands how to unpack packages, symlinks, and run postinstall scripts. Also, you'll have a server from which to roll out any updates conveniently. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com I was looking at the Cygwin installation FAQs, which says that setup.exe method can not run in unattended mode. For the same reason, WinXP's builtin zipper can not be scripted either. Using info-zip's stand-alone binaries zip.exe+unzip.exe are perfect for my purpose except the presence of files like atobm.1.html which are not visible to info-zip or any DOS application. Why Cygwin need to create these types of files while the files like allec.1 serve better i.e seen as symlink by cygwin, as shortcut by Windows, also visible to DOS apps. Presence of atobm.1.html like files makes WinXP's builtin unzipper crawl to its knees. What kind of files are these? Vinod -- 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/
Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather
Thanks Igor and Alexander. run XWin -nodecoration works fine for me. I think this should be the default in the startxwin script included in the Cygwin/Xfree86 distro. No. The default is aimed at users who want to use Cygwin/X as xserver for running local applications (like gv, xemacs) only and provides very close integration into the windows desktop. Using a remote desktop You are right. May be it should be available as an easy option for those who would like to have both local and remote desktops. Our users have overwhelmingly embraced the idea of both desktops that I have included it in the startup of all users. A small fraction of grandma-type of users are taken aback when the blank xrootwindow completely obscures XP. One easy solution would be to startup xwin with slightly reduced sized root window. Is there any way to set screen size, say 90% of the available real-estate? Vinod
Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather
Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? Vinod Try omitting the -multiwindow parameter. That way, the KDE desktop will be started in one Windows window that you can manipulate normally. If you also want to open local X clients in multiwindow mode, you can start another (windowed) instance of X for your KDE desktop (i.e., use run XWin :1.0 -clipboard) and ssh with DISPLAY set to :1.0 to start your KDE session. --Igorhttp://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ with run.exe you will have to specify at least -nodecoration. run XWin will hide the mainwindow. (-externalwm and -internalwm are available in CVS versions and Xming but they are still quite experimental) --ago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Igor and Alexander. run XWin -nodecoration works fine for me. I think this should be the default in the startxwin script included in the Cygwin/Xfree86 distro. -internalwm would be useful, particularly accross slow connections. I saw some discussion about porting KDE to Windows. Having an alternative desktop on Windows might be interesting but I am happy with XP desktop for local Windows and KDE Desktop for remote linux server, both on my laptop. This gives me the best of both worlds. Although, traditional unix users prefer command line interface but ability to use remote unix server through its own desktop opens up a huge convenience. Vinod
Having XP and KDE desktops togather
My cygwin and xfree86 installed fine on my Windows XP machine. I would like to have both local XP desktop and remote KDE Desktop from Linux server, togather. Works almost OK when I do the following: - Execute startxwin.bat which launches xserver as: run xwin -clipboard -multiwindow - Open ssh client terminal and connect to remote linux server - Execute startkde from the ssh client terminal except for the following problem: The KDE Desktop occupies whole of XP screen and remains in foreground, can not be moved and can not be iconized. So Windows becomes practically inaccessible until I kill KDE Desktop. Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? Vinod
Minimal set for XFree86
What is the minimal set of packages I need to download for running XFree86 X-server? Vinod. -- 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/
Download discrepencies
I tried to download cygwin, using setup.exe version 2.416, chosing default for all packages except install for XFree86. Tried 3 different mirrors and all gave me me different number of packages and MBytes downloaded, like: ufl.edu 122 files 88.8 MB rcn.net 120 files 81.1 MB anl.gov33 files 23.2 MB Am I doing something wrong? Vinod. -- 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/
Re: Download discrepencies
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:00:24AM -0500, Vinod Gupta wrote: I tried to download cygwin, using setup.exe version 2.416, chosing default for all packages except install for XFree86. Tried 3 different mirrors and all gave me me different number of packages and MBytes downloaded, like: ufl.edu 122 files 88.8 MB rcn.net 120 files 81.1 MB anl.gov33 files 23.2 MB Am I doing something wrong? Yes. Thanks for the short precise answer. Could you please elaborate a little bit. -- 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/
