Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe

Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe

[Paul Loewenstein]

Because I install Cygwin on multiple systems, I initially run setup.exe 
under wine (fedora 11) to download the files into a Samba-accessible 
directory  (Distribution/Cygwin/ on Cambridge), into which I also place 
setup.exe.

On a Vista system (I haven't tried to reproduce on XP), I then run the 
Samba-accessible setup.exe image to install from local directory.  This 
worked flawlessly under Cygwin 1.5.  For 1.7, I get repeated "Cygwin 
Setup" popup windows stating:  "Can't open file 
//\\CAMBRIDGE\Distribution\Cygwin/ for reading:  Unrecogisable file 
format"  (spelling reproduced as displayed).  Clicking OK button allows 
setup to continue.

Apart from this, setup.exe appeared to function correctly except for not 
generating a desktop icon.

Paul


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Re: Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:06:28PM -0800, Paul Loewenstein wrote:
>Because I install Cygwin on multiple systems, I initially run setup.exe 
>under wine (fedora 11) to download the files into a Samba-accessible 
>directory  (Distribution/Cygwin/ on Cambridge), into which I also place 
>setup.exe.
>
>On a Vista system (I haven't tried to reproduce on XP), I then run the 
>Samba-accessible setup.exe image to install from local directory.  This 
>worked flawlessly under Cygwin 1.5.  For 1.7, I get repeated "Cygwin 
>Setup" popup windows stating:  "Can't open file 
>//\\CAMBRIDGE\Distribution\Cygwin/ for reading:  Unrecogisable file 
>format"  (spelling reproduced as displayed).  Clicking OK button allows 
>setup to continue.
>
>Apart from this, setup.exe appeared to function correctly except for not 
>generating a desktop icon.

Hopefully you're not seriously expecting anyone to debutg a problem where
you run setup.exe under wine to download to a samba system so that setup.exe
can be run on YA system.  That's hardly a common use case.

If this is something that you need debugged, I think you're going to have
to do it yourself.

cgf

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