From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18091 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2003 13:25:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18080 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2003 13:25:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net) (64.164.98.8) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2003 13:25:30 -0000 Received: from candy (adsl-64-123-252-103.dsl.kscymo.swbell.net [64.123.252.103]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with SMTP id h3RDPPMd021881 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 06:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:25:18 -0500 Message-ID: <01C30C96.895850C0.pbewig@swbell.net> From: Phil Bewig Reply-To: "pbewig@swbell.net" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: setup.exe: Woe is me! Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:49:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg02383.txt.bz2 On Saturday, April 26, 2003 8:49 PM, Greg McCrory [SMTP:greg@coolbrew.com] wrote: > At 4/26/2003 08:13 PM -0500, Phil Bewig wrote: > >I just killed setup.exe after over an hour of inactivity. A total > >of over 125MB of disk space has disappeared in the last few > >hours while I have been running setup.exe, reading and > >replying to email on the cygwin mailing list in this thread > >using MS Outlook, and searching the cygwin mailing list > >archives with MSIE. When I killed setup.exe (using the > >"cancel" button on the progress screen), I received a popup > >message "Cannot open log file d:\/var/log/setup.log for > >writing." Are there any additional clues here? What is > >consuming disk? And how do I get it back? > > > >Thanks again, > > > >Phil > > > My firewall has gotten in the way many times with cygwin setup. Try > disabling your firewall just during setup. Also, maybe try using a > different mirror, you may be experiencing long network delays. My cygwin > install dir currently contains 145 mb of downloaded data. > > GMc > On some of the attempts I started by rebooting the machine, not enabling the DSL connection or the firewall, and running setup. I have no problem downloading the data; it is stored in d:\package, from where I do a local install. The problem happens after the MD5 checksum. Phil -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/