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Re: Available Download Sites empty
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 01:11:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: Available Download Sites empty
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <524F2768 dot 7050706 at byu dot net> <524F37AF dot 7010709 at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:48:31PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 10/4/2013 4:39 PM, Sean McKell wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Running 'setup-x86_64.exe' in Win7, the 'Available Download Sites' list is
>> empty. How do I get that to be filled in?
>> I don't use a proxy.
>> I've also tried putting in a mirror site from your website
>> 'ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/', but it fails with 'Unable to
>> get setup.ini'.
>> thanks for any help
>
>WFFM. If you're still having problems, see if you can get to the page
>below. It's what "setup*.exe" references to find mirrors.
>
><http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html>
>
>It's a link that's available on the Cygwin site main page. If that works
>through the broswer, check your browser settings to see how it is set up
>to access the Internet. You'll want to replicate that configuration for
>"setup*.exe". If you can't get there through the browser or other tools,
>you may just be blocked on your end (locally or somewhere along the path).
>"tracert cygwin.com" may help find the problem spot.
Just in the interests of accuracy: That isn't what setup.exe references.
It references http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst . But, Larry is right. If
you can access either of these then setup.exe shouldn't have a problem.
cgf
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