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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:24:55 +0530
From: "Pranav Peshwe" <pranavpeshwe AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2
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On 3/9/07, fergus <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> wrote:
> There's some kind of characteristic of Windows architecture which means
> that if you are trying to install Cygwin from a release stored on a
> local drive (or CD or as in your case a USB device) then the attempt
> will fail if setup.exe and setup.ini are located at H:/ and release/ is
> located at H:/release/. For reasons that I do not understand you have to
> bury the Cygwin release at least one directory deep on the device, such as
>
>         H:/Cyg0/setup.exe
>         H:/Cyg0/setup.ini
>         H:/Cyg0/release/
>
> Any name for the burial site will do.
>
Thanks for the replies Larry,Fergus !!

I did what you suggested. Still it crashes :(
It crashes when i click on the 'Select local package directory'
screen.The dir where i've stored the release has not yet come into
picture. Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? is it a
requirement for setup.exe to run ?
Just for info, the locations are:
setup.exe is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
release is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin\release
J: is one of the FAT32 partitions on my USB HDD. I tried to run
setup.exe from my PATA hdd,but no difference.

Any suggestions ?

Best regards,
Pranav

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