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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...


On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 12:03, Jason Fu wrote:
> Sorry.
> 
> I use normal user to download and then the admin a/c to install such that all 
> CYGWIN instaled packages belong to admin. Recently, after downloading by the 
> normal user a/c, I cannot simply invoke the admin a/c to finish the 
> installation; it simply stops with both the "back" and "next" buttons dimmed  
> after MD5 checking!!. I could only "cancel" the installation and nothing else. 
> I've struggled several times to try to fix the problem:
> i) I successfully installed once after removing the /var/log/setup.log*

Those log files you removed are out diagnostics mechanism, Get us the
logs after you hit cancel, and we might be able to help. Sounds like
you've dug yourself a deep hole here by fiddling rather than reporting
the issue - and in the process destroyed the diagnostic data we'd need.

Rob
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