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"local install"?
- From: "Markus Hoenicka" <Markus dot Hoenicka at uth dot tmc dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:31:09 +0000
- Subject: "local install"?
- References: <20020301101318.16349.qmail@oak.oeko.net>
Hi,
Toni Mueller writes:
> So my current guess is that I can download some stuff using eg. my Linux
> workstation, put them on CD and then move the CD to the W2k box for
> local installation there. Can anyone please confirm that? Can anyone
> please tell me which version of setup.exe I should get to be able to
> install from a local directory?
You lose a lot of the functionality of setup.exe if you do it this way
but you can certainly do this if you want to have a hard time.
>
> (Apart from that I always thought that doing online-installs is both
> error-prone and insecure in most cases, and in general, a M$ disease -
> why does RedHat do it?)
>
This is just not true. Debian's apt-get retrieves packages by default
from the web, and so do several RPM-based utilities. FreeBSD's ports
collection grabs the sources from the web by default, and precompiled
packages can also be installed from the web. It's certainly not a M$
disease but rather common practice.
regards,
Markus
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