Rich, I was able to connect to huntharo-4 and grab setup.ini with setup.exe from my other machine just fine.
Do you have a firewall or proxy server? Have you told setup.exe to use your proxy server? Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Drake > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] WindowMaker, libPropList, and > Openboxsetup.exepackages available for testing > > > Harold, > > still no luck. we need another data point to isolate the problem > .. somebody else needs to try to point setup.exe to that location... > > -rich > > Harold Hunt wrote: > > > > Richard, > > > > Hmm... you mention that you can see the directory with your > browser... that > > means that your browser has a connection open to my ftp > server... and I'm > > not sure how many connections my server allows per host. Thus, > you may want > > to close your browser, wait a few minutes, then open setup.exe > and try to > > connect again (without opening your web browser to that > address). That may > > help... > > > > Harold > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Drake > > > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:48 AM > > > To: Harold Hunt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] WindowMaker, libPropList, and Openbox > > > setup.exepackages available for testing > > > > > > > > > Harold, > > > > > > I tried pointing setup.exe to > > > ftp://huntharo-4.user.msu.edu/pub/cygwin/ but it tries to connect > > > and then comes back with "Unable to get setup.ini from > > > ftp://huntharo-4.user.msu.edu/pub/cygwin/". I'm a relative > > > newbie .. am i missing something with setup.exe? (I can see that > > > directory with my browser). > > > > > > -rich > > > > > > PS: Love the cygwin & cygwin/xfree products! > > > > > > > > > Harold Hunt wrote: > > > > > > > > Point setup.exe at: > > > > ftp://huntharo-4.user.msu.edu/pub/cygwin/ > > > > > > > > There is a setup.ini there that has all the XFree86 packages plus > > > > WindowMaker, libPropList, and Openbox. > > > > > > > > I've tested the packages locally, but I'd like someone to do an > > > install on > > > > there system before I post the packages to the mirror network. > > > > > > > > Oh, I also figured out how to do source packages (using the > > > generic Cygwin > > > > build script), so each of these new packages has a source file > > > as well (if > > > > you wish to see what was changed to make them compile on Cygwin). > > > > > > > > Enjoy, > > > > > > > > Harold > > > >