I never had any success installing cygwin from freesoftware.com, even
when it was by far the closest site. mirrors.rcn.net was certainly a
welcome addition to the available choices. Shouldn't be any reason you
can't try another site to finish the process. That's one of the
advantages of the current scheme.
----- Original Message ----- > What's more, when I followed the usual
procedures to repeat the
> process, and hence complete it, using setup, it said that it was
> unable to get a mirror listing, or that it could not get a setup file
> from the mirror location that I chose. Which was
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com Also when I first went to the standard
> location to try to manually download the files I received a 550 error
> which was explained as file is marked 'unretrievable'. But it was
> marked as retrievable on the mirror site. This happened on several
> different occasions, by the way. Not just now.
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