setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl dot net>]

hi,

um.  very confused.  setup.exe in't setting anything up.

i get a modal dialog at the end of the process saying
"set_cygdrive_flags" - the operation completed successfully.

i check c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log and it is full of
io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory,

presumably there is one such failure for every package that
was endeavoured to be installed from c:\cygfiles\release?

i tried renaming the directory from the _awful_ name
c:\cygfiles\ftp%2feasynet.be%2arubbish%trash%2acygwin to
c:\cygfiles\release and then doing a "local" install.

i've tried using c:/cygwin and c:/cygfiles/release instead of c:\cygwin
and c:\cygfiles\release.

i've tried deleting c:\cygwin after a download and re-entering all of
the questions (but of course specifying "local" install).

i've tried (to my detriment because it is a one-way process
where i will never be able to reliably gain read-write access
to the drive, or recovery process on linux) converting the
filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS.

i've tried setup.exe versions 2.510.2.2, setup 2.427, 2.457.

not one of these things allows for a successful installation,
with every result the same: io_stream_cygfile failures.

wtf is going on and what am i missing?

guidance to a solution / things to try much appreciated.


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