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: Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:57:49 -0400 From: Lev Bishop Reply-To: Lev Bishop To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with Cygwin Installer In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050525.080500.10161.152078@webmail18.lax.untd.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j4PNvwqH024124 On 25/05/05, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: dirty(DOT)harry(ATSIGN)juno(DOT)com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ahem. > This came up just recently and I'm quoting from memory and without doing > my background research, so it may not be 100% accurate, but the root cause > (connection times out while you're in the chooser) and workaround (don't > spend so long in the chooser) should be correct! Another workaround is to click try again and pick a *different* mirror site than you did the first time. (Not perfect because presumably you chose the first mirror site for a reason, but at least you haven't completely wasted half an hour). Lev -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/