Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/30/16:34:54
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Michael Wardle wrote:
> Hi Peter
Hi Michael,
> Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Michael Wardle wrote:
> >>I downloaded the latest available Cygwin release (2.218) in full from a
> >>local mirror using wget, and burned it onto a CD (setup.exe is at the
> >>root level). When I try to run setup.exe directly off the CD and point
> >>it at E:\ for packages, the installer seems to sit there idle, yet if I
> >>copy the CD's contents to a local hard disk and run setup from there, it
> >>works correctly.
> >>
> >>Any idea what the problem might be?
> >
> > What kind of system are you running on? What's your burner software and
> > what CD format/options are you setting?
>
> AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
> Microsoft Windows 98
> Nero Burning ROM 5
> ISO9660+Joliet/Mode 1/Single Session
Sounds normal, so unless the software is broken, the CD image itself is OK.
> (I don't know much about burning CDs, so I usually just opt for
> conservative defaults and try to ensure that I get Joliet and RockRidge
> if they're available in the burning software.)
A decent choice.
> In any case, the CD itself is readable, and the files all appear to be
> in the correct place with the correct names.
>
> > I grab most all of Cygwin, burn to CD, and install from it on a fairly
> > regular basis and I've not seen this problem. When you copy the CD to
> > local disk, do you copy it completely?
>
> Yes.
>
> > I presume you create a subdirectory on the local disk any
> > copy it to that? As an off chance, try burning Cygwin under some
> > toplevel directory, like E:\cygwin instead of having it at the root of
> > the CD.
>
> I thought that might have been the problem, but didn't have any more
> blanks I could use to test.
Try re-writable CDs.
> > Also, only copy the 'release' directory and the setup.* files.
>
> I copied all files at the root level, plus the release subdirectory. I
> think this is equivalent to what you have said, plus md5.sum. FWIW I
> also put some of the documentation from the Cygwin home page in a "docs"
> subdirectory at the root level.
Just to make sure, here's what I meant:
mkdir C:\cygtemp
copy /s E:\* C:\cygtemp
Install from C:\cygtemp
> Indeed, this was about all I could copy, as it came in at about 560 MiB,
> which is nearly a full ISO9660 CD.
Yes, it is quite large.
> > Just as an aside, I have seen a seemingly hanging condition while
> > installing from a network mounted Windows Share (actually a Samba
> > server). Copying it locally did not solve the problem, however. After
> > some paring down of extraneous directories, I discovered that the
> > toplevel directory 'xfree' was causing the hang. If I renamed 'xfree'
> > to, say, 'old_xfree' the hang didn't occur. I have not had time to run
> > setup under debug to shoot the problem.
>
> That might be worth looking at, as I had also downloaded XFree86.
Hmmm, is that XFree86 in the release directory or the X development stuff
in the 'xfree' directory that's at the root of the CD? This may require
a debug session with setup.exe
> My installer also failed with an error about an unrecognized line or
> option in setup.ini. It turned out that there was another setup.ini
> (other than the standard one at the same level as setup.exe) in a
> subdirectory called "ccache". After removing that file, the installer
> worked fine. Naturally the CD I burned did not include this file.
--
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood
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