some more questions :cygwin setup failed

[rahul toley]

Hi Gerrit,

Thanks for your help and explanation. I used setup.exe to install cygwin  . Still the shell gets killed . If I try to open the cygwin.dat(under C:\cygwin directory) file , it opens as a shell with title "Finished - cygwin" 
the prompt itself shows "bad command or filename"  . If I try to do anything to this shell , the system prompts me to close it .

Basically after installation , I see an icon and if I click on it , the shell opens and gets killed immediately . 


I need cygwin to install verilog-icarus,perl and gcc. 

I would appreciate your diagnostics as I couldnt get any more info from the user guide regarding installation and the first steps after installation.

I expected cygwin a unix like shell from where I can execute all unix development tools eventually.  

thanks,
Rahul.


--- "Gerrit P. Haase"  wrote:
> rahul toley schrieb am 2001-04-14, 0:15:
> 
> > Target Platform : Windows ME (problem ?)
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> > Executable version :cygwin-1.1.8-1.tar.gz after
> > untarring and gziping (i use powerarchivers
> extracter)
> Never use such extracters!!!
> Use setup.exe from cygwin.
> Didn't you use setup.exe?
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
> Load it down and do the install with this tiny tool.
>  
> After installing cygwin correct, you may use tar and
> gzip and bzip2
>  that comes with cygwin, but never use winzip or
> some other dumb tool.
> They don't extract everything!!!
> 
> > Side Questions:   which is the main executable. i
> > tried running cygpath.exe cygcheck.exe
> 
> x:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
>  
> > Symptoms : Two files that look perfectly normal to
> me
> > setup and setup.log
> [...]
> Seems there are some parts missing.
> 
> Load down with setup.exe.
> It is difficult to say, what is minimum to install.
> 
> I would suggest, you will need nearly all from
> latest and everything
> from contrib, well, for the beginning, you won't
> need squid, postgresql,
> maybe cvs is not important to you, ghostscript is
> not that essential
> for cygwin to run, mt is for tapes... if you got no
> tape..., mutt is
> the email-client which will not be used for cygwin
> to run and also isn't
> ssmtp (mailer for mutt), tetex-beta takes a huge
> mount of space and isn't
> needed to run cygwin. But all the other packages are
> important (more or 
> less). Well, if you don't plan to develop, there are
> some other packs,
> which will not be needed, like gcc, but then i
> wonder, why you want to 
> use cygwin...
> 
> I always do 'download from internet' at first, then
> run setup again and
> install from local directory.
> If setup is ready with installing, it makes a
> shortcut to your desktop,
> if you like, which points to x:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
> This .bat file is the startup for cygwin.
> You need to call it.
> For some reason, you will need to modify it. I added
> this line:
> set CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec title
> CYGWIN must be set before the start of bash.
> Read the cygwin-ug (User Guide) and the FAQ:
> http://www.cygwin.com
> for more informations.
> 
> whole cygwin.bat:
> =================
> @echo off
> H:
> chdir \bin
> set CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec title
> bash --login -i
> 
> After calling this .bat, you should be able to call
> every binary
> from the shell, just like on unixes, like:
> $ cygcheck -s -v -r
> $ mount
> $ help
> $ set
> $ date
> and so on
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Gerrit
> 
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-------------- next part --------------
2001/04/14 12:03:34 Starting cygwin install
Current Directory: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop
source: network install
mbox note: Could not change dir to C:\Cygwin
Selected local directory: C:\My Download Files
root: C:/cygwin binary system
net: Direct
site: ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin
Downloaded latest/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.1-5.tar.gz
Downloaded latest/cygwin/cygwin-1.1.8-2.tar.gz
Downloaded latest/gzip/gzip-1.3-1.tar.gz
Downloaded latest/tar/tar-1.13.19-1.tar.gz
Downloaded contrib/tcsh/tcsh-6.10.00-2.tar.gz
Downloaded contrib/unzip/unzip-5.41-1.tar.gz
Downloaded contrib/zip/zip-2.3-1.tar.gz
Installing latest/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.1-5.tar.gz
Installing latest/cygwin/cygwin-1.1.8-2.tar.gz
Installing latest/gzip/gzip-1.3-1.tar.gz
Installing latest/tar/tar-1.13.19-1.tar.gz
Installing contrib/tcsh/tcsh-6.10.00-2.tar.gz
Installing contrib/unzip/unzip-5.41-1.tar.gz
Installing contrib/zip/zip-2.3-1.tar.gz
mbox note: Installation Complete
2001/04/14 12:32:25 Ending cygwin install