Re: [FIXED] was: Re: Unattended setup succeeding but not really

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Adams  wrote:
> Thanks to http://superuser.com/questions/1031675/why-is-this-dos-batch-file-that-installs-cygwin-unattended-failing?noredirect=1#comment1451429_1031675
> the installation has been fixed!
>
> The problem was that I was using -D without understanding that it
> meant "download only".  I was basing everything on the output of the
> setup executable when giving --help as an argument.  Notice the
> description of the -D option:
>
> C:\Users\user\cyg64>cygsetup64.exe --help
>
> Command Line Options:
>
>  -D --download                     Download from internet
> ...
>
> It would be nice if the description was "Download from internet but do
> not install" or something.
>
> -matthew
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Matthew Adams <matthew@matthewadams.me> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone knowledgeable has had a chance to look into this?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Matthew Adams <matthew@matthewadams.me> wrote:

Please don't top-post. https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU is frowned
upon on this list.

I had to remove *eight* *hundred* *and* *fourty-four* lines which had
nothing to do with your current message.

Csaba
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