Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
From: [email-masked] (Perry Hutchison)
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 4 May 02 00:59:40 PDT

> What options did you select when running setup?

Install from Local Directory
next screen unchanged (root C:\cygwin, all users, Unix files)
next screen unchanged (local pkg dir C:\download\cygwin)
Here it suggests upgrading setup, but doesn't provide a means to do so.
Select to install the newly-downloaded packages.
It started to install, then died.

> Why did you run a two-step install?

To have the install sets available for setting up other machines,
or for reinstalling this one if (when!) Windoze gets hosed.

> Please send in the logs from /var/log/setup.log and
> /var/log/setup.log.full.

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