Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 12/28/2009 08:41 PM, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> On 12/28/2009 08:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:05:10PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>>> On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe
>>> runs but I get
>>> this warning:
>>>
>>> "The current ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe. If you
>>> have any
>>> trouble installing, please download a fresh .... "
>>>
>>> I have scanned the disks for any ini I can find and there are none
>>> remotely
>>> related to cygwin. I have also tried downloading setup.exe several
>>> times.
>>>
>>> Continuing on I get:
>>>
>>> ... setup.bz2 line 2567: syntax error, unexpected STRING
>>>
>>> Help is much appreciated.
>>
>> You are *not* downloading the latest version of setup.exe which is the
>> version that you'll see in setup.ini - 2.674 .
>>
>> Perhaps some helpful proxy is caching the setup.exe download.
>>
> I think you are right.
>
> I have a way to wget off of a different provider. I will try that and
> report back
>
Confirmed, the browser I was using was caching the file. I simply used a 
different browser and it brought in 2.6..

Thanks for catching that for me.

Jerry

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