Installing CYGWIN for Oracle Applications on Windows XP.

Question

For those who do not have access to metalink - setps to install CYGWIN. Important steps are in bold.
Step 1 - Log in
Log in as a local administrative user (the user who runs the Rapid Install.)
Step 2 - Create a Cygwin directory eg. C:\CYGWIN.
Create the directory where you plan to install Cygwin (called the Root Directory). This directory cannot be under Program Files, or any other directory with blank spaces in its name. In addition, it cannot be under the APPL_TOP.
Step 3 - Download the Cygwin Software
Do the following to download the Cygwin software:
Navigate to http://www.cygwin.com and click on "Install or Update Now!" to download setup.exe to your machine.
Run setup.exe and click Next, which will bring up the Choose Installation Type screen.
Choose Option 2, Download without Installing.
Click on Next to go through the next few screens, where you will be asked to choose the directory to store the packages (called the Local Package Directory), your Internet connection type, and a download site.
Click on Next again to get to the Select Packages screen, and select the following packages (click on to toggle):
All Default
Archive Default, plus manually select the zip package
Base Default, plus manually select the following extra packages: ash, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, gawk, grep, sed, tar and which
Devel Default, plus manually select binutils, gcc, gcc-core, gcc-g++, make and mktemp
Doc Default, plus manually select cygwin-doc and man
Editors Default, plus manually select vim
Interpreters Default, plus manually select gawk
Shells Default, plus manually select ash and tcsh
Utils Default, plus manually select cygutils and file
Click on Next again to download the selected files.
Step 4 - Install Cygwin
Once the download is complete, perform the following steps to install Cygwin.
Launch setup.exe again to conduct the install.
From the Choose Installation Type screen, choose Option 3, Install from Local Directory.
Click Next, and specify the Root Directory where you wish to install Cygwin (created in Step 2), and DOS as the Default Text File Type.
Click Next and specify the same Local Package Directory from Step 3.
Click Next to get to the Select Packages screen.
Choose All Install (click on to toggle). Note: Do not choose All Default, since this will not include all the necessary files.
Click on Next again to conduct the installation.
Note
We do not recommend downloading and installing all packages by selecting All Install in Steps 3 and 4 because a complete download can take several hours, and installation of the full download uses 1.85 GB of disk (versus 127 MB for the prescribed procedure).
Step 5
Type these commands to maintain compatibility with existing shell scripts:
C:\> copy gawk.exe awk.exe (answer yes to copy over existing file)
C:\> copy grep.exe egrep.exe
C:\> copy make.exe gnumake.exe
C:\> copy gcc.exe cc.exe
Step 6
Add the cygwin bin directory to the system path. For instance:
C:\> set path = %path%;D:\cygwin\bin

Answer 1

Hi,
IA, trying to install APPs 11i on win XP using Cygwin...
I have installed setup.exe from cygwin as u told . and configured the packages required . I have a dial up account for internet . After 2-3 hours it gets disconnected and the download stops and i have to begin afresh .
CAn u pls .tell me anyother alternative site to download complete version of Cygwin in one file so that i can download it using Download managers to resume when disconnected...
Thanks
VEnkat
Hyderabad