Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00b801c21fca$aedc8e60$0dcbfea9@emcbfsserv> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "Cygwin ML" , "Robert Collins" References: <000d01c21fca$73240330$1800a8c0@LAPTOP> Subject: Re: setup.exe fails to find mirrors Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:11:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 If your behind a router (big pipe ------ :) it wont take long... Just goto a mirror like sources.redhat.com and download the packages you want/need into a dir. Run setup once downloaded and choose install from local dir, and chhose the dir you dl'd to. It should start to install... Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk _____________________________________________ Exposure Internet/Intranet http://www.exposure.org.uk This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please alert the sender or alternatively return mail to emails@exposure.org.uk. If the reader of this e-mail is not an intended recipient, you have received this e-mail in error. Please contact emails@exposure.org.uk immediately by return mail and permanently deleting the copy(s) you have received. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" To: ; Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 1:09 AM Subject: Re: setup.exe fails to find mirrors > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dennis Foreman" > To: > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 5:10 AM > Subject: setup.exe fails to find mirrors > > > > I have tried for 2 days to get setup.exe to find the mirrors so it can do > > the downloads and it consistently reports the failure: > > getUrlToStream-http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst. If I paste > this > > address into a browser, I do get the list. > > > > The error is instantaneous with clicking on Direct Connection+next. I am > > using Windows XP Pro, behind a router. The FAQ says to check my > connections. > > They are OK. All my other internet access is OK. > > > > I searched this forum for "router download" and there were no relevant > hits. > > Since this is the "recommended" method of getting the cygwin packages, can > > someone help in getting it to work. > > Sure. Have you tried either of the other two connection methods (proxy, IE5) > ? > > Rob > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/