setup-x86 unattended mode: crash when invoked from a dos console.

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 1 09:54:00 GMT 2015


Hi Francis,

On Nov 30 23:59, Francis ANDRE wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The following set-x86.exe command in unattended mode crashes on Win7
> 
> C:\Users\FrancisANDRE>c:\cygwin\bin\uname.exe -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW idefix 2.3.1(0.291/5/3) 2015-11-14 12:42 i686 Cygwin
> 
> C:\Users\FrancisANDRE>c:\cygwin\setup-x86.exe -B -D -q -n  -d -R cygwin -s
> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cygwin  -P unzip

The crash is not nice and I'm just looking into that, but the path you
specify with the -R option is supposed to be an absolute DOS path, e.g.
C:/cygwin.  Please try this, it should get you further.


Thanks,
Corinna

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