X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HK_OBFDOM,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B3806BE.70000@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:15:42 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: empty site list in setup References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 Guy Kroizman wrote: > Hi, > > when running the setup from work, I get to the screen of "Choose > Download site" and the list is empty. > > I try adding to the user urls from the mirror site list on the cygwin > site but I get errors of this kind: > Can't open ftp.mirrorservice.org/setup.bz2.sig for reading: No such > file or directory. > > Should I talk to the IT department and tell them something? Sounds to me like you are probably behind some kind of proxy. Assuming web browsing works for you in general, try changing the option on the "Select your internet connection" page to "Use IE5 settings". cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple