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From: Jim Langston <jlangston AT celsinc DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: bin dir not created during cygwin setup in Win2kPro 
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:57:08 -0700
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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com> 

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:40:56PM -0700, Jim Langston wrote:
> >I've installed from internet and downloaded from internet both, but exact
> >same thing.
>
> Only one is appropriate: "Install from internet".  Essentially, at this
> point, you should just be running Setup and clicking on Next repeatedly.
> Don't make any decisions other than that.

Yes, I've done that.  When I click on Install from Internet, it still asks me
for 2 directory paths, one where it will install the program to, and one where
it will download the package too.  Yes, I know it doesn't make sense for it to
ask for where to download it to when I am installing from the internet, but it
does anyway.

The only way I've seen it act different in these two methods in the 13 installs
I've done so far is that if you tell it to download from the internet it will
download the packages and then exit the program and not install anything.  Then
I can run the setup.exe again and tell it to install from the local hard drive
and point to where it's located.  If you tell it to install from the internet
it will download it and then install it.

Is this the way it's supposed to act?  I couldn't tell you, this is my first
attempt at installing this program.  I'm giving up after 13 attempts to reinstall
with many different methods (install from internet, download from internet,
install from local hard drive, install to e, install to c, etc...)

It may be something hosed in my computer, I just don't know.  The reason I'm 
attempting to install cygwin is so I can connect to a SuSe box running SSH and
CVS.  For some reason WinCVS will not connect me through SSH to the CSV server
even using plink and putty, even though someone else follows the exact same
steps and it works for them.  For me the server tells me it doesn't like my
public key, go figure.

I've tried installing this using every method I could find, with the same exact
results every time no matter what I do.  So my feeling now is that either there
is something in the registry that's preventing this from installing, some environment
variable I have to tweak, or that my MSI is not compatable with the cygwin setup.exe
(which I highly doubt).

Unless there are any suggestions other than, "try installing it again", I give up.

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