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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: <Mark DOT Bevan AT gwent DOT wales DOT nhs DOT uk>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: install process hangs on when run under windows 98 (using setup v2.249.2.4)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:21:12 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of 
> Mark DOT Bevan AT gwent DOT wales DOT nhs DOT uk
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 July 2002 3:11 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: install process hangs on when run under windows 98 
> (using setup v2.249.2.4)
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what is going wrong and how to sort things out ?

Something is causing a postinstall script to hang.

Can you send in the contents of /etc to me as a zip file (after killing
setup, before doing anything else?)

Thanks,
Rob


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