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From: Phil Bewig <pbewig AT swbell DOT net>
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To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: setup.exe:  Woe is me!
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:25:18 -0500
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On Saturday, April 26, 2003 8:49 PM, Greg McCrory [SMTP:greg AT coolbrew DOT com] wrote:
> 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
> 

On some of the attempts I started by rebooting the machine, not
enabling the DSL connection or the firewall, and running setup.  I
have no problem downloading the data; it is stored in d:\package,
from where I do a local install.  The problem happens after the
MD5 checksum.

Phil

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