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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:49:29 -0500
To: "pbewig AT swbell DOT net" <pbewig AT swbell DOT net>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Greg McCrory <greg AT coolbrew DOT com>
Subject: RE: setup.exe:  Woe is me!
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At 4/26/2003 08:13 PM -0500, Phil Bewig wrote:
>I just killed setup.exe after over an hour of inactivity.  A total
>of over 125MB of disk space has disappeared in the last few
>hours while I have been running setup.exe, reading and
>replying to email on the cygwin mailing list in this thread
>using MS Outlook, and searching the cygwin mailing list
>archives with MSIE.  When I killed setup.exe (using the
>"cancel" button on the progress screen), I received a popup
>message "Cannot open log file d:\/var/log/setup.log for
>writing."  Are there any additional clues here?  What is
>consuming disk?  And how do I get it back?
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Phil


My firewall has gotten in the way many times with cygwin setup.  Try 
disabling your firewall just during setup.  Also, maybe try using a 
different mirror, you may be experiencing long network delays.  My cygwin 
install dir currently contains 145 mb of downloaded data.

GMc



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