X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: heliocbortolon Subject: Re: Unable to install Cygwin on Windows XP: the actual messages. Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 13:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <4EE09659 DOT 2000709 AT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: > > On 12/8/2011 11:40 AM, Helio C. Bortolon wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > > > > > Pressing 'retry', the window keeps refreshing continuously. Pressing > > 'continue' leads to a hang in the process, and canceling it leads to: > > > > ""Cannot open log file D:\"Documents and > > Settings"\CXZH/var/log/setup.log for writing"" > > > > do not install in a directory with space in the name like > "Documents and Settings" > > Try using the standard > D:\cygwin > ... > > Regards > Marco > > Wonderful! It worked fine. I had to find another point to install, but everything is going on now. There was a message complaining about the spaces in the very beginning, but the process seemed to disregard it. I got fooled. I hope I will get the X working by this week, after this I will no more use Windows ports of Linux apps. Thank you very much. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple