Hi, I should begin by admitting to being a newbie, but hopefully that won't be relevant. I've also been experiencing problems with setup 2.427 (as have quite a few people), and although I have only just downloaded the Cygwin stuff I want I haven't tried to install yet for reasons that are too long to go into here, so I can't tell if the install from local directory error occurs on my system, though. I'm going to try to give as detailed a description as I can of my problems, so here goes:
I'm using Windows 98 1e, OneTel Broadband (supposedly 512kbps, but it claims to work at 576000bps), and Internet Explorer 6 (actually, it's more like 6.x.x.x). Having started setup.exe, after negotiating the chooser window (which took a while. BTW, to avoid confusion, I think it would be a good idea to replace the X-in-a-box, that signifies you want something, with a tick), when I tried to download, the program seemed to shoot quickly through (without actually downloading anything, although it did create the directory structure) before I got a dialog box like this: Cygwin Setup ------------------------------- Download Incomplete. Try again? Yes No I chose Yes, and got this: Cygwin Setup ------------------------------------------------- Unable to get setup.ini from <ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin> OK This problem actually occurred first with a different mirror - the one that appears on the top of the mirrors list. I had to log off after getting that far, and tried the mirror mentioned above (then got to this point) the following day, so it's not a mirror-specific problem. I was now able to select a different mirror, so I chose the top one. Everything I'd picked in the chooser window was as far as I could tell still there. (although checking it all would not be practical, especially if I'd be able to get no further). I moved past it, and this time the downloading occurred. Despite my connection speed, download (BTW, I'd chosen the default, Direct Connection) only seemed to occur at 59.5 kbps average and so took over two hours, so I'm reluctant to have to go through it again - leading to the question of will I be able to use a later, fixed version of setup.exe to install what I've already downloaded if the current one fails to install on my platform too? I did have to leave the room quite a bit - well, I couldn't watch the screen for two hours - but at some point, PROBABLY after the download claimed to be 90% of the way through, I am pretty sure that either it sped up immensely or stopped early, and I'm not sure what to make of that - perhaps it didn't go all the way to 100% since I hadn't chosen to download every cygwin package, but as I didn't choose as high a proportion of the stuff as 90% I'm worried about this. Even so, everything I wanted seemed to have come through - except the source for crypt. It is possible I forgot to select that, but I don't think I did, and with all the problems I was facing it could certainly have been setup.exe's fault - more on this later. However, it had come through into a directory with a name corresponding to the name of the first mirror I'd tried - the second, successful one had a directory with a corresponding name but that only had a setup.ini file in it. (Do I need to do anything about this?) Plus, although I'd put setup.exe into a folder entitled C:\cygcache and run it from there (and used it as the directory to download into), another folder, C:\cygwin, was created as well. It contains only 5 very small files in C:\cygwin\etc\setup. From the User's Guide, it seems that all I should need to move between machines to install Cygwin on other machines (And I will need to do this) is the cygcache folder, implying that there'd have been no need to create another folder - and what if I'd entitled my first folder cygwin instead of cygcache? Is there something I will have to do involving moving files from this folder into cygcache? Finally, I googled for a Cygwin mirror site to get the crypt source (and later did this with the new version of gmp and it's source) and, not sure if these could safely be put into appropriately-named folders in cygcache, I put them in a folder by the name of C:\cygcrypt. This brings up the final question: can I safely put them into cygcache (and delete the older gmp) using Windows Explorer without needing to alter setup.ini or anything before trying to install them? What about after the rest's been installed? Can I just use Windows Explorer (or "My Computer" - or perhaps File Manager, come to think of it) to move them (and some C++ source files of my own) into Cygwin's directory without anything being screwed up or any of Cygwin's system files needing to be altered? </LONG EMAIL> Thanks for any help, James McLaughlin. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo