Subject: Re: setup.exe gives abnormal program termination
From: "Roland1753" <[email-masked]>
To: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:02:24 -0400

tried both setup programs with the directories configured as you
recommended.......the new setup "checks MD5" for all the packages but gives
the same error. is there anywhere that you know of with inormation for
manual installation?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Roland1753'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: RE: setup.exe gives abnormal program termination

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roland1753 [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 10:11 AM
> > To: Robert Collins
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> > Subject: Re: setup.exe gives abnormal program termination
> >
> >
> > first i moved the download directory up out of the install
> > directory. so
> > right now it looks as follows:
> > d:
> > \cygwin
> > \ftp%3a%2f%2fplanetmirror.com%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin
>
> Nope. What you need is something like:
>
> D:\
> D:\cygwin (empty dir)
> D:\cygwinpackages\
> D:\cygwinpackages\ftp....
>
> Tell setup to use d:\cygwinpackages as the local package dir.
>
> If that still crashes, grab a stack dump with drmingw (preferred) or
> drwatson.
> Also, you might try the 2.259.2.4 snapshot from
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots. It's not ready for release yet,
> but it may have the bug you are experiencing fixed. YMMV.
>
> Rob
>
>

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