X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B5D9FCE.1080805@bmts.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:42:38 -0500 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cannot install cygwin on Win XP on VirtualBox References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com 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 Erez Zilber wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Win XP on VirtualBox on an Ubuntu machine. I'm trying to > install the latest cygwin version (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe). I > started the installation and selected 'Install from Internet'. Then, I > expected to see a list of mirrors but it was empty. If I try the exact > same thing from a real Windows XP machine, everything works fine. Two questions... 1. Can you ping anything on the internet off your XP under VirtualBox? 2. Are you on a corporate intranet that requires all computers connected to it to be some standard corporate distribution of XP? Ralph -- 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