Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:12:48 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: setup.exe[i] only creates directory tree Message-ID: <20000420151248.A1772@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <200004201926.PAA01591@jaj.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <200004201926.PAA01591@jaj.com>; from pedwards@jaj.com on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:26:13PM -0400 On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:26:13PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > >I'm subscribed to the digest, but haven't seen this mentioned lately. > >The setup.exe (built yesterday afternoon, it tells me) does an excellent >job of creating the directory structure, but doesn't retrieve anything. >It prompts for the FTP site, says it's connected, thinks about it for a >few seconds, then exits with "Installation took 79 seconds." > >There's nothing there afterwards. What am I missing? :-) Possibly you're missing a valid ftp site, from the sound of it. If you're using sourceware, it's pretty overloaded right now. I would suggest trying various ftp sites. Alternatively, you can download the tar files yourself to one directory and just run setup there, using the 'd' option. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com