I appreciate the response and the provided script, but the question remains whether I am doing something wrong (and what!) or if setup.exe just isn't working as expected (bug?).
Specifically, in the Target field of my shortcut's properties, I have: C:\Users\knellis\Installers\Cygwin\setup-x86_64.exe -d -N -s "http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/" And, I've tried with and without the trailing slash in the URL. No matter, it complains with: Unable to get setup.ini from <http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/> --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple