Re: Installing from downloaded files or CD

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Peter Flynn writes:

> Unfortunately when I put this onto a CD and run setup.exe on the
> target machine, and pick "Install from directory" it starts to
> install Cygwin, and then pops up a little box saying Setup has
> encountered an error, the installation is being aborted, and do I
> want to send a notification of the error to Microsoft.

How far did it get?  What does /var/log/setup*.log say?

> I copied
> all the CD to \tmp and tried from the hard disk but got the same
> problem. The CD contains:
>
> $ ls -l /tmp/lily
> total 296
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 peter    peter       17790 Feb 11  2004 cyg-apt
> drwxrwxr-x    3 peter    peter        4096 Sep 23 14:58 etc
> drwxrwxr-x    3 peter    peter        4096 Sep 23 14:59
> http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin
> -rw-rw-r--    1 peter    peter      268800 Apr 25 16:03 setup.exe
> $
>
> Does that look right?

Yes.  Can you `tar tjf' all the archives?

Jan.

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