Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" To: Cc: Subject: RE: New user / CD installation problems Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:40:30 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030311162900.30999.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin --8<-- > > It is the runnable installation, the "cygwin" directory tree, that I > > am talking about. Some time ago I tried it with the source tree on > > the CD, running setup and trying to install from that, but it was a > > total failure (the setup program refused to look at the CD and I could > > find no way of directing it to do so.) > > You need to copy the ftp3a%2f%2f... directory *with* setup.ini and the > release/ dir to your local hard drive. Ever thought of using "subst"? Well, as I haven't been using Win versions later than 98SE I can't tell if it is available. But for 98/98SE it has proven its value ;-) Assumption: "G:" is unused, as it is written here. (make sure LASTDRIVE allows the drive letter of your choice) 1. Take the enclosed BAT-file and place it in any directory 2. Double click it, in Explorer. Run it from the DOS-prompt or whatever 3. Tada! You've got G:\ to put setup's downloads into. 4. Double click it, in Explorer. Run it from the DOS-prompt or whatever 5. Tada! Your G:\ is gone. At any point, move the contents of "G:" onto a CD-R, *** remember to include the BAT-file ***, and you will be able to run setup from that CD. AFTER having run the BAT-file to enable "G:" (to be the root, or subdir, on that CD). To use another drive letter; replace the THREE instances of G: with any *UNUSED* drive letter, e.g. Z: . /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden --8<--SETRES_G.BAT-- @echo off subst | find /C /I "G:" >nul if not ERRORLEVEL 1 goto found subst G: . goto x :found C:\ cd \ subst /D G: :x --8<-- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/