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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Rick Kane" <rkane AT delcomsys DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <GCEHJBLHCGOKGADPKGLGCEADDCAA DOT rkane AT delcomsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup, Win98, Install :-(
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:17:37 +0100
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Rick Kane wrote:
> I've tried to read the archives but haven't found anything that seems to
> already address the following problem.
>
> We have a bunch of Win98 machines that have had many versions of Cygwin
> placed on them, dating back to pretty much 1998.  We have found that we
> can't seem to install on them anymore.
>
> We have tried installing from the net and installing from a local package
> (typically downloaded from the net into a package folder using a non-Win98
> machine).
>
> I've tried setup 2.340.2.5 and 2.249.2.10
>
> I'll describe what happened with a local directory install using 2.340.2.5
> because that local package sucessfully installed on a Windows 2k machine.
>
> 1. On the "choose a download source" screen we select the bottom option
> "install from local directory"
>
> The first hint that things aren't quite correct is that it takes a bit for
> the "Select Root Install Directory" screen to appear.  By contrast this
> screen came up right away on the Win2k machine (which has a slower CPU!)
>
> 2. On the "Select Root Install Directory" screen we choose c:\   (which we
> started using years ago and continue to use for historical purposes)  We
> choose "Install for All Users"  and DOS as the "Default Text File Type"
>
> 3. We say Yes to the warning about installing at c:\
>
> 4. We select the local package directory (c:\dist\cygwin_041403).
>
> 5. We wait a really long time for the "Select Packages" Screen to come up.
> It finally comes up. (By contrast, the Win2k installation brought this
right
> up)
>
> 6. Selecting packages seems to take about 10-15 seconds to update for
every
> package one selects. (By contrast it is virtually immediate on the Win2k
> install)
>
> 7. Once all packages have been selected the "Progress" screen comes up.
It
> takes it a very long time (several minutes) to show the current disk
> utilization (around 43% if one cares).  It never shows any progress in the
> "Progress" and "Total" lines at all.  I even went to lunch and came back
and
> it was still hung there.  A Win98 ctl-alt-del show the task dialog with
"Not
> Responding" next to the Setup app.
>
> The above steps can be repeated on 3 Win98 machines. They repeat about the
> same way with net installs. The result is also the same if I run regedit
to
> remove all of the Cynus Solution entries in the registry and remove /bin
> /usr/ /etc /var and /lib before running setup.  On one of those machines I
> upgraded to Win2K and the exact same setup and package installed
> immediately.  I would rather not upgrade all of these machines though...
>
> If anyone can offer a suggestion, please do so.

You could try 2.358 from http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/.

Its got one slowness bug fixed, but yours sounds worse than anything thats
been reported before.


Max.


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