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Re: setup.exe -- ver 2.249.2.2 failure
It is completely empty, except for the setup.exe file. Of course after the
install begins a folder is placed there containing a garbled name of the
selected downloaded site (ie.
'ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.cise.ufl.edu%2fpub%2fmirrors%2fcygwin').
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heribert Dahms" <heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com>
To: "'James Evans'" <jrevans1@earthlink.net>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:25 PM
Subject: RE: setup.exe -- ver 2.249.2.2 failure
> Hi James,
>
> 4) is it a completely empty dir?
>
> Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Evans [SMTP:jrevans1@earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 23:12
> > To: Robert Collins; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: setup.exe -- ver 2.249.2.2 failure
> >
> > Step-by-step to cause setup.exe to fail.
> >
> > 1) run setup.exe
> >
> > 2) click next
> >
> > 3) select 'Download from internet' and click next
> >
> > 4) leave local package directory as-is (current directory) and click
next.
> >
> > 5) leave 'Direct Connection' selected and click next.
> >
> > 6) select a download site. (for the example of writing this up I chose
> > 'ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu')
> >
> > 7) click next
> >
> > 8) click the top 'default' to make everything say 'Install' and click
> > next.
> >
> > The downloads progress until it gets to
'_update-info-dir-00006-1.tar.bz2'
> > and then I get a dialog box that says:
> > 'Download Incomplete. Try again?'
> >
> > I can choose yes or no. when I choose 'no' then the setup exits. When
I
> > choose 'yes', then I choose another site, click next, leave everything
the
> > same and click next again. This time it pops up the 'Download
Incomplete.
> > Try again?' dialog box immediately (I assume it is immediately because
> > that
> > file is where it left off and is having problems.)
> >
> > That is all, I hope this helps in identifying the problem.
> >
> > --James
> >
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
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