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 Message-ID: <050c01c213eb$403a4c80$fe104e89@jevansnt> From: "James Evans" To: "Heribert Dahms" , References: Subject: Re: setup.exe -- ver 2.249.2.2 failure Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:34:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 It is completely empty, except for the setup.exe file. Of course after the install begins a folder is placed there containing a garbled name of the selected downloaded site (ie. 'ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.cise.ufl.edu%2fpub%2fmirrors%2fcygwin'). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heribert Dahms" To: "'James Evans'" ; Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:25 PM Subject: RE: setup.exe -- ver 2.249.2.2 failure > Hi James, > > 4) is it a completely empty dir? > > Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Evans [SMTP:jrevans1 AT earthlink DOT net] > > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 23:12 > > To: Robert Collins; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > > Subject: Re: setup.exe -- ver 2.249.2.2 failure > > > > Step-by-step to cause setup.exe to fail. > > > > 1) run setup.exe > > > > 2) click next > > > > 3) select 'Download from internet' and click next > > > > 4) leave local package directory as-is (current directory) and click next. > > > > 5) leave 'Direct Connection' selected and click next. > > > > 6) select a download site. (for the example of writing this up I chose > > 'ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu') > > > > 7) click next > > > > 8) click the top 'default' to make everything say 'Install' and click > > next. > > > > The downloads progress until it gets to '_update-info-dir-00006-1.tar.bz2' > > and then I get a dialog box that says: > > 'Download Incomplete. Try again?' > > > > I can choose yes or no. when I choose 'no' then the setup exits. When I > > choose 'yes', then I choose another site, click next, leave everything the > > same and click next again. This time it pops up the 'Download Incomplete. > > Try again?' dialog box immediately (I assume it is immediately because > > that > > file is where it left off and is having problems.) > > > > That is all, I hope this helps in identifying the problem. > > > > --James > > > [Heribert] [snip] > -- 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/