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RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
- From: Carl Sorensen <carl_sorensen at byu dot edu>
- To: 'Ton van Overbeek' <tvoverbe at cistron dot nl>,"cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>,"johnm at falch dot net" <johnm at falch dot net>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:00:03 -0600
- Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
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Ton wrote:
>
> One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on
> http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/.
> The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe.
> See if the problem is still there on XP with that version.
>
I followed this advice
The result:
An error window titled "Cygwin Setup" gives the message "Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install";.
I pointed my browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file.
Two questions:
(1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site?
(2) Is there something different about the way setup processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites?
Carl