Re: Some help with [re-]installation please

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:10:18AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: > > I had all the ftp'ed files left from installing cygwin previously > > sitting in a directory on a networded drive, could I have used these > > to re-install cygwin rather than downloading everything again? If so, > > how does one do i

Re: Some help with [re-]installation please

2004-03-10 Thread Brian Ford
Since none of this is really specific to Cygwin/X, I've redirected this thread to the main cygwin list. I'll take a stab at a few of these, but there are parts I am not sure of either. On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote: > I had a disk disaster over the week-end, a disk 'optimiser' made my >

Some help with [re-]installation please

2004-03-10 Thread Chris Green
I had a disk disaster over the week-end, a disk 'optimiser' made my 160Gb main drive very optimal by wiping it completely. I was fairly well backed up etc. but it takes a while to get everything back to normality. I found re-installing cygwin and cygwin/X a bit confusing so would appreciate some