Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Dario Alcocer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14154.47562.273000.516580@nogal.fed1.sdca.home.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 07:55:06 -0700 (GMT-8:00) To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: GNU-on-NT installation CD X-Mailer: VM 6.67 under 21.0 "20 minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (beta67) I'm new on the list, so I don't know if this has come up, but it occurred to me that it would be nice to put together an installation CD that installs the latest stable version of Cygwin for W9x (would that be 990115?) using RPM instead of InstallShield. RPM has already been ported, so the only thing needed to make this easy is to repackage any existing ports that folks have done into an RPM package, and post these packages along with a very short installation guide to an FTP site. Also, an alternative RPM-based Cygwin installation would have to be put together so that one unified installer can be used for all packages. The existing InstallShield installer would not be replaced. As ported packages (or even the Cygwin binaries themselves) get updated, an updated .RPM could be posted, allowing others to install them easily. My interest in this is to eventually put together an installation guide and CD that others can use to quickly install Cygwin on W9x or NT. But, in order to put together this guide, I need to know what software I can point others to. -- Dario Alcocer dalcocer AT home DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com