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Guy Kroizman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when running the setup from work, I get to the screen of "Choose
> Download site" and the list is empty.
> 
> I try adding to the user urls from the mirror site list on the cygwin
> site but I get errors of this kind:
> Can't open ftp.mirrorservice.org/setup.bz2.sig for reading: No such
> file or directory.
> 
> Should I talk to the IT department and tell them something?

  Sounds to me like you are probably behind some kind of proxy.  Assuming web
browsing works for you in general, try changing the option on the "Select your
internet connection" page to "Use IE5 settings".

    cheers,
      DaveK


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