setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Sat Nov 8 09:02:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:28, Jason Fu wrote:
> Dear gurus,
> 
> I normally separate the normal user a/c and the admin a/c in my Server 2k3. I 
> use the normal user a/c doing the downloading of various CYGWIN packages and 
> then I use the admin a/c (here the admin is called root like UNIX) to do the 
> installation. Recently I find the installation cannot proceed after MD5 
> checking. I tried several times to remove /var/log/setup.log* and it continued 
> to finish the installation. But this morning, the installation could not 
> continue again and I removed the /var/log/setup.log* but this time it didn't 
> work anymore.
> 
> Anybody has any idea of what's going on?

Well, if we had some details, maybe. You haven't even given the error or
symptoms of "cannot continue". And deleting the log files is the last
thing I'd suggest in 'fixing' setup.

Rob
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