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On 2/28/2014 10:05 AM, carolus wrote:
On 2/27/2014 5:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: , if you start one session of setup, select apackage, download it, and don't install it (for whatever reason), then start another setup session and do the same thing with a with a different mirror, you'll get the same package again under a different directory tree (the root of that tree being loosely named after the mirror you chose).Does this mean that install-from-internet is a better choice than download-without-installing when the connection is apt to be broken? Or for combining several overnight runs to cope with a slow connection? Currently I'm downloading to an external USB drive which I then use to reinstall Cygwin on several machines. And thanks for the explanation.
Either should work OK, as the former is a superset of the latter. The key thing is to not pick more than 1 mirror if you don't need to. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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