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Date:	Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:47:08 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	bf250 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca
CC:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to:	<200010220227.WAA07517@freenet10.carleton.ca>
	(bf250 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca)
Subject:	Re: newbie cygwin install
References:	<200010220227 DOT WAA07517 AT freenet10 DOT carleton DOT ca>

You *can* use "install from internet" on unreliable modem connections.
Setup first downloads what it needs to the local disk, *then* starts
the install.  If the download fails, just try again.

> selected local directory. Setup refuses to install a whole lot of the
> downloaded things e.g. less (so man doesn't work) and tar (so I can't
> add anything) - it just offers the choice between Skip and N/A. (But,
> they are there - the same as the ones it will install.)

Look in setup.log.full and see what it says (or email it to us).

> BTW, I only want a system to load and use binaries (no development),
> but when I tried to run setup with only the "user" set of binaries,
> cygwin crashed with cygwin1.dll not found...

You *must* install the cygwin module.

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