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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: FW: Cygwin start menu / mirrors
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542D39E9.7040708@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL125-W36951BE4862EA821A997BACDB90@phx.gbl>

On 02.10.2014 12:07, t s wrote:
>
> fwd
>
>

> Subject: Cygwin start menu / mirrors
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 06:05:10 -0400
>
>
> Do these updates solve the problem with the start menu?
>
>
> I usually download updates from; ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
>
> Today it says;
>
> "One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the list of official Cygwin mirrors any more. They may be out of date or missing some packages.
>
> if you experience installation problems consider trying official mirrors only"
>
> when I click Yes, it goes to a download screen for setup.bz2.sig
>
> and it stalls
>
> which server should I be using? surely mirrors.kernel.org should be trustworthy?
>

the ftp portion of mirrors.kernel.org was a bit unresponsive in the 
latest days.

Try using the http://mirrors.kernel.org



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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <COL125-W45E02D0FF814E98332ADDDCDB90@phx.gbl>
2014-10-02 10:07 ` t s
2014-10-02 11:41   ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2014-10-02 12:19   ` Jon TURNEY

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