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RE: installing cygwin on private lan
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:11:54 +0200
- Subject: RE: installing cygwin on private lan
> From: hazloya@!!!!!!!.net
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:30 AM
> I would like to install Cygwin on a DOS box that doesn't have an
> Internet connection but that does have a network connection to a Linux
> box. The Linux box is dual-homed (Internet and the private lan) but
> does not route between the two networks. It does export a filesystem
> to the DOS box. If I could populate the Linux filesystem with the
> Cygwin packages then I could use setup.exe's
> "Install from Local Directory." option on the DOS box. But I've been
> unable to find a Linux version of setup.exe which I would use to
> populate the Linux filesystem via the "Download from Internet" option.
>
> So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate
> the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin?
I'm not sure this can be run on the Linux-machine,
but anyway; clean_setup from http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/
has some sort of mechanism to get the packages via e.g. wget.
(I have yet to try it out myself)
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E --76-->
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