X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47AF64A6.8090503@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:55:02 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to get Setup to work... References: <000901c86adc$b88459d0$298d0d70$@net> In-Reply-To: <000901c86adc$b88459d0$298d0d70$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mel Rosso-Llopart wrote: > Every attempt to get setup to work has failed. Either I get an empty > directory tree for cygwin on my C: drive or setup aborts with the tradition > XP failure window to send a message to Microsoft. Some interesting > symptoms: > 1) Dr. Watson also aborts after trying to dump the setup dump I'm not sure what this means. > 2) When the screen comes up to show my locations from which to select my > download, it is always blank This suggests to me that you don't have a connection to the network or at least not 'http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html'. See what you get with 'http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/