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Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2


On 3/9/07, fergus <fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net> wrote:
There's some kind of characteristic of Windows architecture which means
that if you are trying to install Cygwin from a release stored on a
local drive (or CD or as in your case a USB device) then the attempt
will fail if setup.exe and setup.ini are located at H:/ and release/ is
located at H:/release/. For reasons that I do not understand you have to
bury the Cygwin release at least one directory deep on the device, such as

        H:/Cyg0/setup.exe
        H:/Cyg0/setup.ini
        H:/Cyg0/release/

Any name for the burial site will do.

Thanks for the replies Larry,Fergus !!

I did what you suggested. Still it crashes :(
It crashes when i click on the 'Select local package directory'
screen.The dir where i've stored the release has not yet come into
picture. Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? is it a
requirement for setup.exe to run ?
Just for info, the locations are:
setup.exe is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
release is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin\release
J: is one of the FAT32 partitions on my USB HDD. I tried to run
setup.exe from my PATA hdd,but no difference.

Any suggestions ?

Best regards,
Pranav

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