Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Greg Youngdahl
Hi all, My first message to the list... though I've used cygwin in the past. I searched for answers though I came up with nothing definitive. Seems like it should be a FAQ issue, but it wasn't there. My situation is that I have a PC (WinXP), but it does not have any network connection

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: I saw on the RedHat cygwin page some sort of instructions that seemed promising until they had several bold print lines added saying that parts of it don't work anymore and/or have been removed from public availability, but with

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Greg Youngdahl
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: I saw on the RedHat cygwin page some sort of instructions that seemed promising until they had several bold print lines added saying that parts of it don't work anymore and/or have been removed from

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: So, can this still be accomplished? Is there some web page or other document that explains how it should be done? If not - can someone help me, and perhaps I can put together such a document? Perhaps it is trivially easy,

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:51:54AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: So, can this still be accomplished? Is there some web page or other document that explains how it should be done? If not - can someone help me,

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:40:13PM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: I saw on the RedHat cygwin page some sort of instructions that seemed promising until they had several bold print lines added saying that parts

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:51:54AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: The perplexing thing about this is that there is a setup.exe (somewhere under C:\Windows\system32) that pops up a little window to tell me I should use the