RE: Problem with setup

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com>]

Jonathan,

Look at the very last entry on the chooser page, _PostInstallLast, make
sure it isn't selected...

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- "Underwood, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca> wrote:
> Further to my last email I thought i'd send the list some information
> which
> may, or may not be of use in tracking the problem (my knowledge of the
> whole
> setup process being extremely limited).
> 
> Firstly i tried to do a "download from internet", selected "install" on
> the
> All item in the packages list (thus requesting the entire distribution).
> This seemed to fail when trying to download the post install script
> _update-info-dir, complaining of "download incomplete" or similar. From
> setup.log.full:
> 
> [_update-info-dir] action=00002-1 trust=curr installed=none src?=no
>      categories=All, _PostInstallLast
>      requires=ash, texinfo
> 2002/05/26 19:32:58 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
> 2002/05/26 19:33:10 Ending cygwin install
> 
> Following that, i reran the setup and did an install from local
> directory,
> which got all the way through, though i noticed in the terminal window
> that
> pops up many errors being reported, though they flashed by two quikly to
> see
> (i can't find a log of them anywhere). Anyway, the distribution so far
> seems
> to be ok, but this all seems buggy in the extreme.
> 
> I see from reading back in the list that the
> functionality/non-functionality
> of setup.exe has been an issue for sometime, though i can't see anything
> directly related to this. Apologies if I missed something pertinent.
> 
> jonathan.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: May 26, 2002 6:17 PM
> > To: Underwood, Jonathan; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: RE: Problem with setup
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, this has been corrected in HEAD. Please use a snapshot 
> > version from
> > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, or make sure that the setup.exe
> > package is set to source only, not binary downloads.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca] 
> > > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:09 AM
> > > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > > Subject: Problem with setup
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I'm having a problem with the current release version of 
> > > setup (i.e. that linked to from the webpage).  Whenever i try 
> > > and do either a clean install via download from internet, or 
> > > install from internet, or even just update packages, I get 
> > > recurrent "Download incomplete messages" and the setup fails. 
> > > Any ideas? 
> > > 
> > > jonathan
> > > 
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