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 From: "Gonzague GENET" To: Cc: Subject: RE: setup.exe : can't get lists of download sites Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:51:51 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Unfortunatly after turning off ALL unknown w2k services to be sure that any firewall is running, setup still does the same thing.... grrrr... But I've find a "solution". After a w2k reinstallation, it works. Thanks anyway. > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, gonzague genet wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I get this error when running setup.exe : > > Can't get list of download sites. Make sure your network settings are > > connect and try again. > > > > I DO NOT use any firewall nor anti-virus software, > > I can open the url: > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst with IE5 > > > > I'm using Windows 2000 Pro SP3 > > Setup.exe is ver 2.416 > > > > I have searched in the mail archives and with google for help and found > > nothing that could help me. > > > > Thanks in advanced. > > Gonzague. > > Try telling setup to "Use IE5 Settings" (on the "Connection Type" page). > If that doesn't work, *do* double-check that you don't have firewall > software (AFAIR, XP comes with one built-in). > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/