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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>  Reformatted.
> 
> mtdg wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> mtdg wrote:
>>>> I downloaded only cygwin to a flash drive. Later when I tried to do
>>>> another
>>>> download on a different PC it did not find any of the previous download
>>>> and
>>>> told me I needed everything.
>>> Did you point it at the same download directory on the flash drive?  Did
>>> you
>>> select the same mirror?
>> Yes, but as I said because the drive letter had changed on the flash 
>> drive
>> is was really a 'different' directory if you see what I mean
>>
>> i.e. the inital download was to f:\cygwin\download and the second time it
>> was to h:\cygwin\download 
> 
> It has less to do with where you put the download directory than whether
> 'c:\cygwin\etc\setup' exists and is populated.  If you move to a new
> machine, most likely this directory (structure) doesn't exist and, even
> if it does, it's likely to be different than the first machine.  The moral
> of the story?  <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.mirror>

Looks like I fat-fingered that one.  I mistyped the download directory in
my test after deleting the 'cygwin' directory.  I actually see no difference
regardless of the location of the download directory or whether the 'cygwin'
directory hierarchy exists.  So it WJFFM.  My pointer to the FAQ entry is
still an important consideration though.  If you want mirror semantics, you
really want to use a mirroring tool like 'wget' or 'curl' or something.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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