X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:08:10 +0100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) > I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. > > My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe > (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall. > I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through > the installation choosing: > > - Installation from Internet > - C:\cygwin as root path > - Install for all users > - Textfile type: Unix/binary > - Internet Connection: Direct Connection > - A mirror near to me: http://linux.rz.tuhr-uni-bochum.de > - I did not change the package settings and wanted to make a default > installation > > The download process worked well an the installation began. After the > installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it. > The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find > bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory. > > The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the files: > cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory! > The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that > the message above appears more than once). > > I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance! I mean sorry, why don't you have a look at it yourself?! It's not Sanskrit and it's pretty self-explaining. "running: c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe - c" - couldn't get much more explicit, could it? T. -- 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/