Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:47:08 -0400 Message-Id: <200010220247.WAA01455@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: bf250@freenet.carleton.ca CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <200010220227.WAA07517@freenet10.carleton.ca> (bf250@freenet.carleton.ca) Subject: Re: newbie cygwin install References: <200010220227.WAA07517@freenet10.carleton.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. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com