Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/05/19/13:36:51
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:34:59PM +0100, Alexander Anderson wrote:
>In article <20000519131129 DOT 26093 DOT qmail AT web124 DOT yahoomail DOT com>, Earnie
>Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes
>
>>Is it IE5 that you have installed or an earlier version? If you have IE5
>>installed then it is probably a timeout problem and the solution would be to
>>keep trying.
>
>
> I use a mail/news reader called "Turnpike" to connect to my ISP De-
>mon Internet over a modem. I'm saying that once connected, the Win32
>FTP command works fine, as does Internet Explorer (3 in fact).
Earnie was informing you that you NEED IE 5.0 or later installed for setup.exe
to work. This is a limitation that we've recently discovered. We're going
to fix this but it will take a while.
> However, setup.exe always bombs out in the same way, regardless of
>whether I'm connected or not:
>
>
> J:\Cupboard.my\archive.zip\CygWin\latest>setup
>
> This is the Cygwin setup utility (v1.43),
> built on May 2 2000 01:00:30.
>
> Use this program to install the latest version of the Cygwin Utilities
> from the Internet.
>
> Alternatively, if you already have already downloaded the appropriate files
> to the current directory (and subdirectories below it), this program can use
> those as the basis for your installation.
>
> If you are installing from the Internet, please run this program in an empty
> temporary directory.
>
> Press <enter> to accept the default value.
> Root directory? [C:\] c:\
> Install from the current directory (d) or from the Internet (i)? [i] i
> Connecting to sourceware.cygnus.com...(try 40)
> Couldn't connect to ftp site.
> The parameter is incorrect.
>
> Unable to retrieve the list of cygwin mirrors.
> Couldn't connect to download site.
>
> J:\Cupboard.my\archive.zip\CygWin\latest>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Right now, your best alternative is to download the .tar.gz files (not
the -src.tar.gz files) in all of the subdirectories of latest. Then, run
setup and specify 'd' when prompted if it should install from the current
directory.
> Ideally I would like to know what options I could supply to set-
>up.exe to get it to produce debugging diagnostics. Unfortunately setup
>doesn't understand /?, /h, /help, -h or --help, and I'm not enough of a
>command line guru to guess any more.
There is no help available from the command line. Setup.exe is a very new
program that is evolving.
FYI, the source code for setup.c is available in the cygwin snapshots at:
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots
Christopher Faylor
Cygwin Engineering Manager (and developer)
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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