Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/04/20/15:18:57
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:09:04PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
>I was telling setup.exe to hit the U-of-Tenn FTP site (choice 27, I thnk).
>Apparently it wasn't getting through, but setup can't figure that out yet.
>Ah, the joys of the bleeding edge. :-)
>
>
>> Alternatively, you can download the tar files yourself to one directory
>> and just run setup there, using the 'd' option.
>
>I went with this route. Downloaded every package except for byacc, ran
>setup, picked 'd'. Only some of the packages got installed. Bash wasn't
>one of them (cygwin.bat was most unhappy about that). Neither was gzip.
Did you see "bash.tar.gz" scroll by?
>So I grabbed with bootstrap.zip, unpacked it, and tried to unpack bash
>myself. Truly strange things happened. Here's the cmd window; I'm in
>the directory that will become the Cygwin root.
>
> E:\cygnus\cygwin1-1> e:\tmp\bin\gzip -dc C:\TEMP\net11\bash.tar.gz | e:\tmp\bin\tar tvf -
> -rwxr-xr-x dj/games 391168 2000-01-17 21:17 bin/bash.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x dj/games 3198 1999-09-13 21:56 bin/bashbug
> -rw-r--r-- dj/games 198987 1999-09-13 21:56 usr/man/man1/bash.1
> -rw-r--r-- dj/games 1343 1999-09-13 21:56 usr/man/man1/bashbug.1
>
>This looks good, I think. So I tell it to unpack:
>
> E:\cygnus\cygwin1-1>e:\tmp\bin\gzip -dc C:\TEMP\net11\bash.tar.gz | e:\tmp\bin\tar xvf -
> bin/bash.exe
> bin/bashbug
> usr/man/man1/bash.1
> usr/man/man1/bashbug.1
>
>But nothing happens:
It sounds like you probably have /bin mounted explicitly. Looks like
this is YA change to setup.
cgf
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