new GUI setup program!

Tim Prince tprince@computer.org
Thu Jul 13 22:20:00 GMT 2000


Yes, when you click "work off line" IE5 kills your dial-up connection.
I've done this to myself a few times.  It's what we want IE5 to do if we
need to run fax, for example.  My installation over dial-up appears to
have completed with total success and fixed my corrupted g++
installation even though I had to leave for several hours while it was
under way.

Tim Prince
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Jensen" <bones0_list@hotmail.com>
To: "DJ Delorie" <dj@delorie.com>; "Cygwin list"
<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: new GUI setup program!


> From: "DJ Delorie" <dj@delorie.com>
> > OK, folks, the big day is here - a GUI setup program!  Yup,
> > point-n-click ease, pretty progress monitors, and other things that
> > Windows users have come to expect.
>
> BUG ALERT!
> I decided it was about time to clean out my old Cygwin installation,
so I deleted
> my d:\cygwin folder and ran the new setup program from an empty dir. I
selected
> Internet install and the mirror "sunsite.auc.dk".
> It ran for a few minutes, downloading/installing the first few
packages, but then
> it crashed with no error message, other than an empty dialog box...
the title was
> one of your packages, I don't remember excactly.... took a screenshot
of it, but
> lost it during a file copy :-(. I think it was bison.
> Then, when I started setup.exe again, I'd get the error "The system
cannot find
> the file specified" when it tried to download the ftp mirror list,
until I located
> the still-running setup.exe process in the Task Manager and killed it.
Now I'm
> running it again, a different mirror, appears to work.....
>
> Could it be because I told IE5 to work offline while installing? It
happened a few
> minutes after that. I just did that to stop my mail program from
hogging the
> connection, but maybe it influenced the installation because of your
"IE5
> settings" option? Just guessing here.....
>
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