setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>.  Reformatting.

Morgan Gangwere wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Pranav Peshwe <pranavpeshwe<AT>gmail<DOT>com> wrote:
>> On 3/9/07, fergus <fergus<AT>bonhard<DOT>uklinux<DOT>net> wrote:
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Don't feed the spammers.

>> >  >> Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ?
>> >  >> is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ?
>> >
>> > I don't really know why you didn't get setup.ini along with setup.exe
>> > and release/ when you ran wget. It should be colocated with the file
>> > setup.exe and the directory release/.
>> >
>> > It is not a requirement for setup.exe to run* but I suspect it might be
>> > a requirement for setup.exe to run properly.
>> >
>>
>> Hello,
>>     It got working with the ini :)
>> Thanks for the help, Fergus and Igor.
 > well, this makes a point that we need to address. I keep this structure:
 > N:\Cygtemp\ - Temp dir for cygwin packages
 > N:\Documents And Settings\(username)\Desktop\CygSetup.exe
 >
 > (replace N: with any drive name... like X:\ or Q:\)
 >
 > i simply point (Cyg)Setup.exe to n:\Cygtemp\ and it picks up the
 > mirror automatically. also, i should note that there is no way to get
 > _every_ package in the repository. can this be done easily?

What do you mean by "get"?  Have you tried 'wget' or 'curl'?

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