Greetings, Ulli Horlacher! > I tried to write an installer.bat which uses the Windows bsdtar, but it > fails with:
> C:\>dir > Volume in drive C has no label. > Volume Serial Number is EC42-8D26 > Directory of C:\ > 31 Jan 2020 12:45 84.340.162 cygwin64.tgz > 31 Jan 2020 14:38 91.960.715 cygwin64.zip > 31 Jan 2020 12:45 45 cygwin64_addons.tgz > 19 Mar 2019 05:52 <DIR> PerfLogs > 13 Jan 2020 13:12 <DIR> Program Files > 15 Jan 2020 17:32 <DIR> Program Files (x86) > 13 Jan 2020 13:12 <DIR> Users > 13 Jan 2020 14:46 <DIR> Windows > 31 Jan 2020 13:59 <DIR> xx > 31 Jan 2020 14:43 91.960.889 xxx_20200131_144048.zip > 4 File(s) 268.261.811 bytes > 6 Dir(s) 45.442.043.904 bytes free > C:\>tar -xf cygwin64.zip > cygwin64/bin/apropos: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\apropos' > cygwin64/bin/awk: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\awk' > cygwin64/bin/bzcmp: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzcmp' > cygwin64/bin/bzegrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzegrep' > cygwin64/bin/bzfgrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzfgrep' > cygwin64/bin/bzless: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzless' > cygwin64/bin/captoinfo: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\captoinfo' > ^C > C:\> > (I run it as administrator). > Any idea what went wrong Wrong is precisely the way you are trying to "install" it. > and how I can fix it? Use supported ways to install Cygwin. Even if you would successfully unpack your clone, on a different system, you would still need to run full rebase. It's way easier to just script setup.exe to install what you need. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, February 1, 2020 12:53:20 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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