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 X-Internal-ID: 3D171F790002785C Message-ID: From: Mark DOT Bevan AT gwent DOT wales DOT nhs DOT uk To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: install process hangs on when run under windows 98 (using setup v 2.249.2.4) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:10:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I have tried several times to install Cygwin using the setup.exe from the cygwin homepage on my PC which is running Windows 98 second addition each time with the same result. All goes well selecting install options - defaults for everything up to download location (I have tried all UK ones) I select which packages I want (I have tried leaving at defaults and clicking next, selecting just cygwin DLL - v 1.3.11-3, selecting in addition to defaults what I actually want - xfree, man and file packages) Download runs along ok When download completes I select tick box to create start menu icon rather desktop icon. Lots of DOS boxes then appear and disappear as various post setup actions take place. The last box to appear displays commands mkpasswd and then mkgroup being executed and directing their output to /etc/passwd and group. The PC then stops responding to anything and the last DOS box remains on the screen (even after leaving PC thinking for over 5 minutes) other than mouse pointer movement (keyboard - other than CTRL-ALT-DEL - and mouse clicks do not give feedback) and CTRL-ALT-DEL. CTRL-ALT-DEL when pressed brings up close program dialogue box in which MS-DOS prompt is said to have stopped responding also shutdown option is grey-ed out. If a close this program the PC still doesn't come back to life and I have to reset the system using the reset button on the base unit. I delete the c:\cygwin directory and the directory the internet download places files in and remove the registry key tree "Cygnus Solutions" from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software and HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Sofware between attempts to install to ensure the system is clean as far as Cygwin setup is concerned. I have tried just downloading the packages using the option to do so in setup and then running the install from a local directory - this has the same result. Can anyone suggest what is going wrong and how to sort things out ? Thanks Mark -- 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/