Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <068c01c18a80$d6156d60$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Bruce Dobrin" , "Matthew Cary" , References: <4.3.1.2.20011221154344.0234eee0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <017101c18a63$f0c80400$b66416ac@spimageworks.com> Subject: Re: cygwin and XP Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:37:28 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Dec 2001 00:37:57.0795 (UTC) FILETIME=[E6EEEF30:01C18A80] Bruce, you might like to try one of the recent setup snapshots. We're approaching feature freeze for a new release, and all feedback is useful. Rob === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dobrin" To: "Matthew Cary" ; Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 8:10 AM Subject: Re: cygwin and XP > I don't have a solution, but I have seen this before on both Win2k and NT4. > I was installing onto machines that were on wireless networks and I > attributed it to dropping connections/ slow net interface. It seemed to > download a few things and then bug out with the error you mentioned. I > later burned our local cygwin install build to a CD and it worked fine, > this probably isn't a good solution, but perhaps it will help illuminate > the problem. > > (PS, the new "setup" drives me nuts too, especially 'cause it often seems > to punt cygncurses5.dll unless you specifically tell it to re-install) > ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/