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Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:48:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download
- References: <418C37A7.3020406@mills.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:32:07PM -0800, E Shon wrote:
>I'm a lowly newbie and have been trying to install Cygwin in Windows XP
>for the past 4 days to no avail and am about to throw in the towel...
>[snip]
>- downloaded the default packages to C:\cygwin using setup.exe five
>separate times after completely erasing all occurences of the word
>cygwin on my harddrive before a fresh install, and have tried
>downloading from different mirrors
It sounds like you are using the "download" rather than the "install"
option when running setup.exe. If you are really a newbie and decided
to change the default while installing, then... why would you do that?
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