Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:35:34 -0400 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Cc: lists AT almide DOT demon DOT co DOT uk Subject: Re: Help with setup utility (v1.43) Message-ID: <20000519133534.A20612@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, lists AT almide DOT demon DOT co DOT uk References: <20000519131129 DOT 26093 DOT qmail AT web124 DOT yahoomail 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: ; from lists@almide.demon.co.uk on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:34:59PM +0100 On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:34:59PM +0100, Alexander Anderson wrote: >In article <20000519131129 DOT 26093 DOT qmail AT web124 DOT yahoomail DOT com>, Earnie >Boyd writes > >>Is it IE5 that you have installed or an earlier version? If you have IE5 >>installed then it is probably a timeout problem and the solution would be to >>keep trying. > > > I use a mail/news reader called "Turnpike" to connect to my ISP De- >mon Internet over a modem. I'm saying that once connected, the Win32 >FTP command works fine, as does Internet Explorer (3 in fact). Earnie was informing you that you NEED IE 5.0 or later installed for setup.exe to work. This is a limitation that we've recently discovered. We're going to fix this but it will take a while. > However, setup.exe always bombs out in the same way, regardless of >whether I'm connected or not: > > > J:\Cupboard.my\archive.zip\CygWin\latest>setup > > This is the Cygwin setup utility (v1.43), > built on May 2 2000 01:00:30. > > Use this program to install the latest version of the Cygwin Utilities > from the Internet. > > Alternatively, if you already have already downloaded the appropriate files > to the current directory (and subdirectories below it), this program can use > those as the basis for your installation. > > If you are installing from the Internet, please run this program in an empty > temporary directory. > > Press to accept the default value. > Root directory? [C:\] c:\ > Install from the current directory (d) or from the Internet (i)? [i] i > 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. > > J:\Cupboard.my\archive.zip\CygWin\latest> > > > What am I doing wrong? Right now, your best alternative is to download the .tar.gz files (not the -src.tar.gz files) in all of the subdirectories of latest. Then, run setup and specify 'd' when prompted if it should install from the current directory. > Ideally I would like to know what options I could supply to set- >up.exe to get it to produce debugging diagnostics. Unfortunately setup >doesn't understand /?, /h, /help, -h or --help, and I'm not enough of a >command line guru to guess any more. There is no help available from the command line. Setup.exe is a very new program that is evolving. FYI, the source code for setup.c is available in the cygwin snapshots at: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots Christopher Faylor Cygwin Engineering Manager (and developer) Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com