Install failure for cygwin 20.1 binaries on Win95

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Sat Jul 31 18:34:00 GMT 1999


Do you have Virus Protection up and running?  If so, disable it then try the
install.  Beyond that look to InstallShield for answers.

--- "Nedervold, Eric" <Nedervold@uppercase.xerox.com> wrote:
> I've downloaded both the full and user versions of the cygwin binaries
> (full.exe and usertools.exe) and neither one installs on my machine.
> 
> It sets up a window asking me to wait while it sets up the InstallShield
> program and after a long pause, quietly quits; InstallShield does not
> run.
> 
> I do a search on my disks for '*cyg*' and find a 'Cygnus.txt' in
> 'c:\dos\_istmp1.dir\_istmp0.dir' and it contains corrupted text:
> 
> > y gnus Solutions (formerly named C ygnus
> > Support) was foundd Cin 1989 to provide
> > come rcial sp portf or free software.   ygnus
> > p  pliesp roducts and servics pthat benefit
> 
> etc.  There's also a 'corecomp.ini' that seems to be an init file 
> for InstallShield, but it's corrupted too, as it the 'bbrd1.bmp' in 
> that directory.
> 
> Identical corrupted text appears in 'cygnus.txt' each time I try; if
> I had a bad media problem, I think I'd get varying corruption.
> 
> I've cleaned out 'c:\dos\' and 'c:\windows\temp' between attempts;
> that doesn't solve the problem.
> 
> I've successfully installed the user version on my NT machine at work,
> so it isn't a case of hopeless user failure.  I've downloaded through
> both IE and through Fetch (on a Mac), so I don't think it's a download
> problem per se.
> 
> I'm running Win95 on top of Virtual PC; it's newly installed on the
> virtual machine which has 85M of RAM and 100M free on drive C:.
> 
> Given the size of the download, it's slow to experiment on this.  I'm
> not finding anything relevant in the archives.  It's hard to collect
> more info since I'm just setting the machine up and I don't have the
> tools to collect more info: Catch-22.  Sorry; I'd like to provide
> more info for diagnosis.
> 
> Anyone seen anything similar?  Any suggestions?
> 
> --Eric
> 
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