X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:15:54 +0530 From: "Pranav Peshwe" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2 In-Reply-To: <45F0FB7C.1040604@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: <45F0FB7C.1040604@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 (kindly find the replies inline) On 3/9/07, fergus wrote: > >> Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? > >> is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ? > > I don't really know why you didn't get setup.ini along with setup.exe > and release/ when you ran wget. It should be colocated with the file > setup.exe and the directory release/. Oops.. i wgetted, starting from release/. Overlooked the setup.exe :( . Also,since the setup.exe download on the homepage does not have an ini, the thought that, i might be missing it never occurred to me.Will try with the ini. > But one thing I did not do was "crash". What do you actually mean by > this word? By crash i mean that, as soon as i click 'Next' , a standard windows error dialog box pops up,showing me that, an error has occurred etc.. Right now i'm on linux at work,so can't paste the details. > Sometimes at the start of installation there are long pauses > where nothing seems to be happening, not even disk spinning. Its not that the setup is 'hung'; it fails. Ready to post any other logs/system configuration if required... TIA. Best regards, Pranav -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skill is walking on a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. -- 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/