X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:24:55 +0530 From: "Pranav Peshwe" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2 In-Reply-To: <45F0625F.6090804@bonhard.uklinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45F0625F.6090804@bonhard.uklinux.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 3/9/07, fergus wrote: > There's some kind of characteristic of Windows architecture which means > that if you are trying to install Cygwin from a release stored on a > local drive (or CD or as in your case a USB device) then the attempt > will fail if setup.exe and setup.ini are located at H:/ and release/ is > located at H:/release/. For reasons that I do not understand you have to > bury the Cygwin release at least one directory deep on the device, such as > > H:/Cyg0/setup.exe > H:/Cyg0/setup.ini > H:/Cyg0/release/ > > Any name for the burial site will do. > Thanks for the replies Larry,Fergus !! I did what you suggested. Still it crashes :( It crashes when i click on the 'Select local package directory' screen.The dir where i've stored the release has not yet come into picture. Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ? Just for info, the locations are: setup.exe is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin release is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin\release J: is one of the FAT32 partitions on my USB HDD. I tried to run setup.exe from my PATA hdd,but no difference. Any suggestions ? Best regards, Pranav -- 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/