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From: Paul Loewenstein <paul.loewenstein@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B429094.1020305@gmail.com> (raw)
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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next reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 1:05 UTC|newest]
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2010-01-05 1:05 Paul Loewenstein [this message]
2010-01-05 7:56 ` Christopher Faylor
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