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Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again?
Greetings, Paul!
> As I mentioned in my original message, I tried to create a directory of
> installation packages that mirror my current cygwin installation so that I can
> install the same packages on another PC. Say the original path for the
> installation packages was c:/cygwin/LocalPkg. For the downloaded packages from
> which I would create an installation CD, I created c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg. I
> chose "Download without installing" in setup.exe and "Reinstall" in the Select
> Packages phase. However, the download fails repeatedly regardless of the mirror
> specified. Fortunately, in the initial download attempt, most of the download
> was completed before the failure. In order to fetch only the missing packages,
> I identified the missing packages as:
> _autorebase 000164-1
> _update-info-dir 01088-1
> libpoppler19 0.18.4-2
> Unfortunately, I can only select Keep or Uninstall. There is no choice to
> Reinstall regardless of whether the Keep or Cur radio buttons are selected. Why
> would this be, and how can I select Reinstall so that the packages are
> downloaded into c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg?
> If there is no solution to that, would it be a good idea to simply copy the
> corresponding folder from the actual local package directory c:/cygwin/LocalPkg
> to the corresponding location in c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg? I can't just test
> this on a whim because I have to prepare the CD at home then arrange for an
> administrator to install it in the office.
Simple solution would be to remove these packages from cache and download
them anew, when you doing a new install.
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 28.11.2012, <12:58>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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