Subject: Re: setup.exe via proxy?
From: John S Cooper <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 27 Apr 2000 16:03:09 +0100

Chris Faylor <[email-masked]> writes:

 > >It starts up and displays a list a list of mirror sites.  When I select
 > >one, it just waits for a while and then gives these odd errors:
 > >
 > >    Select an option from 5-28 or [repeat]: 25
 > >    Connecting to ftp site...Done.
 > >    Unable to open "D:\DOCUME~1\JCooper\LOCALS~1\Temp\su37" for output: No such file
 > >     or directory
 > 
 > Does the d:\docume~1\jcooper\locals~1\temp directory actually exist?
 > If so, are there any files in the directory that look similar to su*?

Yes to both questions:

,----
| $ ls d:/Documents\ and\ Settings/JCooper/Local\ Settings/Temp/
| Acr25.tmp   su14        su2         su25        su30        su4
| JETE3B.tmp  su15        su20        su26        su31        su5
| su10        su16        su21        su27        su32        su6
| su11        su17        su22        su28        su33        su7
| su12        su18        su23        su29        su34        su8
| su13        su19        su24        su3         su35        su9
`----

So it seems to get part way there, but then gives "Unable to open ..." messages
for su36 and later.  Eventually it gives up with:

,----
| Unable to open "D:\DOCUME~1\JCooper\LOCALS~1\Temp\su71" for output: No such file
| or directory
| 
| Downloading: ash.tar.gz...Unable to open "ash.tar.gz" for output: No such file
| or directory
| 
| Download failed.
| Download failed (Abort, Retry, Fail)? [R]
`----

I have over 2Gb free space on the D: drive, so I've no idea why it can only
download some of its su* files.  Many of the su* files seem to be HTML and,
aside from a timestamp difference, identical.  I've appended one, just in case
this indicates what might be going wrong.

 > I'm not sure why you think that this has something to do with a "proxy".

Just the fact that I need to tell other programs (e.g., Internet Explorer about
our proxy server before I can get out to the internet).

 > setup.exe has connected to the internet to get it's list of mirror sites and
 > it is apparently trying to download other things but failing when it
 > attempts to reference files on your local drive.

Hmm, how does setup.exe manage to connect to the internet (presumably it must
locate our proxy server somehow)?

Any further ideas?

Thanks,

    --- John

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Apr 15 2000  DJ Delorie  [email-masked]

This is the README for the Cygwin download area.

* What is Cygwin?

See http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/

* How do I install cygwin?

The easiest way is to download the setup.exe program from
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/latest/setup.exe .  This program
will download everything from the "latest" directory and install it
on your system.  You can also direct the program to install only the
.tar.gz files that are found in your current directory.

WARNING: If you are upgrading from an old version of cygwin, unmount
all your old mount points and back up your old installation before
upgrading.  YOUR OLD MOUNTS WILL BE OVERWRITTEN if you do not do this.

Note that setup.exe is a work in progress.  It does not go to any effort
to preserve your existing setup and could overwrite things that you don't
want overwritten unless you're careful.  It will reset your root directory
to point to whatever directory you choose for installation.

* I'd rather do it myself.

If you are more adventurous, or would like slightly more control, you can
download everything by hand and extract only the files that you need.

Get the files that end in .tar.gz and don't end in -src.tar.gz.  Pick the
ones with the highest version number.  Use "tar xvfz <whatever>.tar.gz"
to install (untar) them.

Note: to develop software, you'll need *at least* gcc, binutils, and
cygwin.  You'll probably end up needing gdb, make, and a few others
(like ash and *utils) if you're porting existing software.

Untar everything from your chosen "cygwin root" directory.

* But I don't have a tar program!

Get bootstrap.zip instead.  Choose a directory to be your "cygwin root"
directory, and unzip it there.  It should create a "tmpbin" directory
with three files in it.  One of them is tar (you need the others also,
of course).  Just run it right from that directory (or move it to
some other random directory, but NOT to your system32 directory) like
"tmpbin\tar xvfz <whatever>.tar.gz".

* How do I build from source?

You need the <whatever>-src.tar.gz files.  Some packages require
other packages (cygwin/*-src.tar.gz is a common requirement, as is
common/*-src.tar.gz).

If you are really serious about building from source you may want to
set up CVS on your system so that you can use the latest development
sources.  Check out the cygwin web site for more details.

* Where do I get help?

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ has docs, or send email to
[email-masked] (which is a general-purpose public discussion
forum for cygwin users).
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