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Re: running setup does nothing


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, David T-G wrote:
>> What are the minimum system requirements for setup?  I have a Win95 PC
>> with 128M RAM and about 60M free on the 400M disk, and when I try to run
>> either an old version of setup that I burned to CD (with the then-current
>> sources) or the current setup from the "Install Cygwin NOW" link) nothing
>> happens; I get an hourglass and then as soon as I move the mouse it
>> changes back to a pointer.
>>
>> Any thoughts?  If it isn't a system requirements problem, then what do I
>> need to do to debug?
>
> David,
>
> AFAIK, setup runs under Win95.  128M RAM shouldn't be a problem.  Disk
> space might be, but setup will not use up 60M of space before it even pops
> up the window, so that shouldn't matter.
>
> Come to think of it, *does* setup show a window?  If it does, which stage
> to you get to by the time an hourglass appears?  If not, please post the
> output of "dir setup.exe" from the command prompt.  Does the *same*
> executable run on another machine (I'm thinking binary/ascii transfer
> problems)?

Also, is setup writing setup.log in the same directory as itself?

And, try running it from a command.com shell, and then immediately after
running setup, type "echo %ERRORLEVEL%", and tell us what that outputs.


Max.


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