Re: cygwin and XP

["Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin at imageworks dot com>]

I don't have a solution,  but I have seen this before on both Win2k and NT4.
I was installing onto  machines that were on wireless networks and I
attributed it to dropping connections/ slow net interface.  It seemed to
download a few things and then bug out with the error you mentioned.   I
later burned our local cygwin install build to a CD and it worked fine,
this probably isn't a good solution,  but perhaps it will help illuminate
the problem.

(PS,  the new "setup" drives me nuts too,  especially 'cause it often seems
to punt cygncurses5.dll unless you specifically tell it to re-install)

Bruce Dobrin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: "Matthew Cary" <cary@cs.washington.edu>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: cygwin and XP


> At 02:00 PM 12/21/2001, Matthew Cary wrote:
>
> >Is cygwin known to have troubles with XP?
>
>
> You can check the mail archives but I think you'll find the answer to
> that question to be "no".
>
>
> >Here is my issue: I run setup.exe from cygwin.com, all my packages are
> >downloaded, I get a message that says mount completed successfully, and
> >then setup disappears.  If I re-run setup and try to install from my hard
> >drive (using the packages that were all downloaded, apparently
> >successfully), the same thing happens: mount completes successfully, and
> >then everything quits.
>
>
> I've heard this report once before.  Was it you?  In any case, it's a
> very uncommon problem.  I don't know what's causing it or a solution.
> You may need to try to debug it.
>
>
> >Also, is there a quick way to select all packages from setup?  It gets
> >tedious switching off all the "Skip" lines, especially when I'm
installing
> >from my hard drive.
>
>
> Asked and answered in the mail archives.  You wouldn't have to look back
> more than a week to find this issue (asked and answered) at any particular
> time (or so it seems).  Short answer?  No, not currently.  Jump in to
> help add the support if you can't wait.
>
>
> >If there were a way of installing things manually, but not individually,
> >that would be fine too.
>
>
> There *are* other ways to install.  But setup.exe is the only one that's
> supported by this list.  Sorry.
>
>
>
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