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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:00:03 -0600
From: Carl Sorensen <carl_sorensen AT byu DOT edu>
Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
To: "'Ton van Overbeek'" <tvoverbe AT cistron DOT nl>,
   "cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>,
   "johnm AT falch DOT net" <johnm AT falch DOT net>
Message-id: <01C207FB.7193E9E0.carl_sorensen@byu.edu>
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Ton wrote:


> 
> One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on
> http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/.
> The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe.
> See if the problem is still there on XP with that version.
> 

I followed this advice

The result:

An error window titled "Cygwin Setup" gives the message "Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install".

I pointed my browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file.

Two questions:
(1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site?

(2) Is there something different about the way setup processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites?

Carl