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On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:48:31PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 10/4/2013 4:39 PM, Sean McKell wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Running 'setup-x86_64.exe' in Win7, the 'Available Download Sites' list is
>> empty.  How do I get that to be filled in?
>> I don't use a proxy.
>> I've also tried putting in a mirror site from your website
>> 'ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/', but it fails with 'Unable to
>> get setup.ini'.
>> thanks for any help
>
>WFFM.  If you're still having problems, see if you can get to the page
>below.  It's what "setup*.exe" references to find mirrors.
>
><http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html>
>
>It's a link that's available on the Cygwin site main page.  If that works
>through the broswer, check your browser settings to see how it is set up
>to access the Internet.  You'll want to replicate that configuration for
>"setup*.exe".  If you can't get there through the browser or other tools,
>you may just be blocked on your end (locally or somewhere along the path).
>"tracert cygwin.com" may help find the problem spot.

Just in the interests of accuracy: That isn't what setup.exe references.
It references http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst .  But, Larry is right.  If
you can access either of these then setup.exe shouldn't have a problem.

cgf

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