From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 104191 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2016 07:25:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 104145 invoked by uid 89); 10 Nov 2016 07:25:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,EXECUTABLE_URI,KAM_EXEURI,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*x:14.0, snapshots, preparation, BUT X-HELO: know-smtprelay-omc-11.server.virginmedia.net Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-11.server.virginmedia.net (HELO know-smtprelay-omc-11.server.virginmedia.net) (80.0.253.75) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:25:04 +0000 Received: from DELL700M ([91.185.178.249]) by know-smtprelay-11-imp with bizsmtp id 67Qz1u00K5PEdgj017Qz6t; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:25:01 +0000 X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=e9z7Mvd/ c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cNievKIGFJKXhc5GxbQfDw==:117 a=cNievKIGFJKXhc5GxbQfDw==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=VawJLKhQAAAA:8 a=XbzF98d3dgO13VLnGPsA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=qN5z6OQWfoYipu91LbAd:22 From: "Fergus" To: Cc: Subject: Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all. Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000801d23b23$8912a3c0$9b37eb40$@bonhard.uklinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 >> Cygwin installation on XP >> 1. Use the following version of setup*.exe: >> 32-bit: ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/snapshots/setup-x86-2.874.exe >> 2. Run setup*.exe with the -X option, using the following mirror: >> 32-bit: ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2016/08/30/104223 Thank you for this really helpful distillation. I followed the instructions exactly, with the minor and probably unnecessary preparation of using regedit to remove from the registry all mentions of Cygnus / Cygwin (because I have occasionally found that previous installations - or, rather, usages - of Cygwin interfere with the groundwork for new usages). And everything worked - in principle, but not in practice. After initiating setup I selected "Download without Installing", clicked on the roundel to select "All" instead of "Default" in order to achieve a Full download rather than the Base download, and away we went. BUT (a) the download appeared to be very slow, which I attributed to properties of fruitbat.org or even the download site ftp://.../104223 which I guess is in some sense virtual (?); however (b) when I checked things this morning having set the thing going last night, I found that in 6 hours only 2048-cli/, 2048-qt/ and the beginnings of 4ti2/ had been downloaded, i.e. the merest starting fragment of what was anticipated. So: the logic seems just fine, the implementation flawed in some way, or on this occasion. Q1 Any ideas of what might be de-railing this simple operation? Q2 [... virtual(?);] Could one instead use wget on ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2016/08/30/104223? This would be easy to initiate, it would avoid the layer of complication induced by setup (and anyway I only want a download, not a setup) and finally - really usefully, since the intention is to build a local mirror and then maybe do something useful with it - it would pull down the *src files, which are a pain in setup, requiring individual ticking of many many checkboxes. But: I tried wget, and just came to a halt with no files found. Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple