X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48C5F454.8000005@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:58:12 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Downloading only and updating on a flash drive problem References: <19383166 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <48C5CFFF DOT 3080100 AT cygwin DOT com> <19384347 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <19384347.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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? HTH, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/