RE: NT Install problem

[Joseph E. Villa]

Jamie,

FWIW, I've installed and am currently coding in Swarm-1.4.1 on a Hewlett
Packard Vectra VL running NT. I was previously running Swarm-1.3.1 with
CygwinB19 on this machine. I did not modify or move or do anything
tricky with my Swarm-1.3.1 installation before installing Swarm-1.4.1
(mostly because I don't know enough to do anything smart). 

I picked up CygwinB20 (the file is full.exe) at
ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/cygwin-b20/full.exe
. Then I got Swarm-1.4.1 (swarm-1.4.1.exe) at
ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/swarm-1.4.1.exe. I installed CygwinB20
in the default directory (C:\Cygnus\cygwin-b20) and likewise Swarm in
the default diretory (C:\Swarm-1.4.1). Everything went very smoothly and
Swarm-1.4.1 came right up. 

I assume from your message that you originally installed CygwinB20 in a
non-default directory. Did you simply reinstall, or first uninstall and
then reinstall? I wonder if there are residual effects from your
original install that are causing the problems. Maybe try uninstalling
CygwinB20 altogether, reinstall in the default directory, and then see
if Swarm flies.

If you don't mind, let me know if you find resolution: I'd love to add
this to my SWARMjournal for newbies.

Cheers,

Joseph.





-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie O'Keefe [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 6:02 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: NT Install problem


Hi,

I seem to have encountered a problem installing Swarm 1.4.1 on a Windows

NT 4.0 pc.  Whenever I run the installation program, I get the error:

    Unexpected pathset failure

The last file it copied was v:\bin\sh.exe at the 89% done mark.  The 
only thing I can do is click on the OK button.  It then deletes all of 
the files.

I looked through the FAQ and searched the swarm-support archives.  I 
tried the suggestions in the FAQ and added a path entry to the pc's 
autoexec.bat and tried installing it to the C drive.  No go.  I tried 
installing the swarmexamples, but it got the same error after installing

the cygwinl.dll.

The Cygwin B20 release installed just fine, but I have reinstalled it to

its default directory on the C drive after installing it and rebooting.

Any help would be welcome.  Thanks!

Jamie


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