Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 18:24:09 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Perry Hutchison" Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g448OP807353 Ok, to upgrade setup, download a new one from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe. > -----Original Message----- > From: Perry Hutchison [mailto:perryh AT pluto DOT rain DOT com] > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 6:00 PM > > What options did you select when running setup? > > Install from Local Directory > next screen unchanged (root C:\cygwin, all users, Unix files) > next screen unchanged (local pkg dir C:\download\cygwin) Here > it suggests upgrading setup, but doesn't provide a means to > do so. Select to install the newly-downloaded packages. It > started to install, then died. > > > Why did you run a two-step install? > > To have the install sets available for setting up other > machines, or for reinstalling this one if (when!) Windoze gets hosed. Are you aware that 'install from internet' also makes the install sets available? Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/