From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: newsetup does nothing
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:27:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000425162704.C13939@cygnus.com>
References: <3905F657.CA53446B@redhat.co.uk>
X-SW-Source: 2000-04/msg00604.html

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 08:47:35PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>I just wiped my windows partition of all traces of its old cygwin
>installation (including registry) so I could install 1.1.
>
>With the setup.exe I just downloaded, nothing happens once it gets to the
>install stage. After I tell it to use the default c:\cygwin root and
>internet install, it just reports:
>
>-=-=-=-=-
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Creating the uninstall file...Done.
>
>Installation took 24 seconds.
>-=-=-=-=-
>
>and setup.log contains just the uninstall line.
>
>oldsetup.exe gets further, but not much:

This isn't getting any further.  It's just printing more messages.
Judging by the fact that this is printing something with the name
"Squid" in it, I assume that there is some problem there.  There isn't
any users-guide.tar.gz available for downloading.

The setup code is using generic Microsoft Internet API calls to download
stuff but apparently this isn't foolproof.

cgf

>-=-=-=-=-=-
>[snip]
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Unable to open "\s45.12" for output: No such file or directory
>
>Downloading: users-guide.tar.gz...Error retrieving
>" http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz ".
>
>Unable to retrieve
> http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz
>Downloading: users-guide.tar.gz...Error retrieving
>" http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz ".
>[repeat ad nauseam]
>-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>and it just keeps failing to download.
>
>Obviously I can download all the .tar.gz's by hand, but still...

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