Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 08:19:10 -0400 From: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE Subject: Re: Installation problem. To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <62c882eb.7d2b1449.8173100@mirapointms2.wayne.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Igor, I think this time, after complete uninstallation, I'd do a "Download from Internet" and then "Install from local directory" - at least the installation won't get wrong if the download is incomplete ? Thx, Deepa ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:34:25 -0400 (EDT) >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Subject: Re: Installation problem. >To: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE >Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > >1) Tools like regedt32 (on Win2k/XP) or regedit (on Win9x and NT) should >let you remove the offending registry keys. Another possibility is to >find Cygwin's "umount.exe" on your hard drive (if it's still there) and >run "umount -A -c". > >2 and 3) This is really weird. You have selected "Network Install", but >the setup log just stops abruptly in the middle of a download... Which >version of setup are you using? Can you try the latest snapshot from > and report the results? > >If you still have "cygcheck.exe" around, could you also please run it and >post the output? > >Thanks, > Igor > >On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, DEEPA SIVASANKARANE wrote: > >> Hi Igor, >> >> 1) I did remove the prev. installation (redhat), removed the >> files in C:\cygwin. How does one remove registry information ? >> I've never dealt with Windows admin, so could you pls. help >> out ? >> >> 2) I "Installed from Internet" twice, from the same ftp >> location, selecting different packages each time, >> with rootdir = C:\cygwin >> localdir = C:\cyg_cache. >> >> 3) Please find the setup.log and setup.log.full files >> attached. >> >> Thank you, >> best regards, >> Deepa >> >> ---- Original message ---- >> >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:49:24 -0400 (EDT) >> >From: Igor Pechtchanski >> >Subject: Re: Installation problem. >> >To: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE >> >Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >> > >> >On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, DEEPA SIVASANKARANE wrote: >> > >> >> hi, >> >> >> >> I did a "Install From Internet" and installed >> >> cygwin, base-files, and binutils. >> >> C:\cygwin as the root installation directory. >> >> >> >> After installation: I browsed thru the bin directories >> >> under c:\cygwin (using WIndows), I don't seem to find any >> >> exe's... >> >> >> >> The downloaded files are of course at C:\cyg_cache.. >> >> >> >> Thanx, >> >> Deepa >> > >> >Is there a c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log? What does it show? >> >What about c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full? >> >If they are not present, try looking for them in the >> >directory from which >> >you ran setup. >> > Igor >> >P.S. I'm assuming you removed whatever previous installation >> >you had of Cygwin (according to ). > >-- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu >ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > >Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. > -- Leto II > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/