newsetup does nothing

[Earnie Boyd]

What happens if you choose a different mirror to download from?

Cheers,
Earnie

--- Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.co.uk> wrote:
> Dudes,
> 
> I just wiped my windows partition of all traces of its old cygwin
> installation (including registry) so I could install 1.1.
> 
> With the setup.exe I just downloaded, nothing happens once it gets to the
> install stage. After I tell it to use the default c:\cygwin root and
> internet install, it just reports:
> 
> -=-=-=-=-
> Connecting to ftp site...Done.
> Creating the uninstall file...Done.
> 
> Installation took 24 seconds.
> -=-=-=-=-
> 
> and setup.log contains just the uninstall line.
> 
> oldsetup.exe gets further, but not much:
> -=-=-=-=-=-
> [snip]
> Connecting to ftp site...Done.
> Connecting to ftp site...Done.
> Connecting to ftp site...Done.
> Connecting to ftp site...Done.
> Connecting to ftp site...Done.
> Unable to open "\s45.12" for output: No such file or directory
> 
> Downloading: users-guide.tar.gz...Error retrieving
> " http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz ".
> 
> Unable to retrieve
> http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz
> Downloading: users-guide.tar.gz...Error retrieving
> " http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz ".
> [repeat ad nauseam]
> -=-=-=-=-=-
> 
> and it just keeps failing to download.
> 
> Obviously I can download all the .tar.gz's by hand, but still...
> 
> Jifl
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