X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4387A745.1000706@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:07:33 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: surendar jeyadev CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation Fails (Hangs?) on plain vanilla XP Machine References: <20051125224438.25604.qmail@web35710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051125224438.25604.qmail@web35710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 surendar jeyadev wrote: > > I am trying to install Cygwin on a standard Windows XP > set up. > When I run 'setup.exe', it hangs at the point where is > starts > to download the 'mirrors.lst' file. The is no activity > in the > progress bar and I noted no disk or net activity for > 30 min. > Retried 3 times to no avail. The log file is included > below. Can you reach from your browser? Are you using an FTP mirror? If so, try an HTTP mirror instead. Or try: > A couple of questions. What are McShield and McAfee > doing here? > I run Norton Internet Security. Could that be the > problem? But, > turning off the firewall did nothing to help. These messages are no problem. Setup checks for McAfee because it is known to cause setup problems. As the message notes, "McAfee may not be installed,...", which is true in your case. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/