Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:58:16 -0400
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: install problem
Message-ID: <20000503145816.B7785@cygnus.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
References: <20000503183343 DOT 26784 DOT qmail AT web3304 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i
In-Reply-To: <20000503183343.26784.qmail@web3304.mail.yahoo.com>; from cwm2n@yahoo.com on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:33:43AM -0700

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Chris Milner wrote:
>I could not get the setupprogram to work correctly.
>After typing setup-1.43.exe at the command prompt
>I got the following:
>
>
>|Connecting to sourceware.cygnus.com...(try 40)
>|Couldn't connect to ftp site.
>|The parameter is incorrect.
>|
>|Unable to retrieve the list of cygwin mirrors.
>|Couldn't connect to download site.
>
>Any suggestions? Are there any command line switches?
>ftp and telnet seem to work find and
>sourceware.cygnus.com is accepting http requests.

Sourcware is very busy.  That command probably indicates that there
were too many ftp users.  A mirror site might work better.

cgf

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com