Hi Helmut,

Thanks for the reply. I can download that file but now that I have it,
how do I get setup to use it? However, I don't think that would work
either since the problem seems to be that cygwin cannot communicate with
the network.

As for apt-cyg, I don't have it installed and, because of this problem,
I can't install anything.

On 8/23/2015 10:00 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Am 23.08.2015, 14:21 Uhr, schrieb Dennis Putnam:
>
>> Since I have gotten no response to this and am stuck I assume my problem
>> is badly worded. I don't know how else to present it. Perhaps someone
>> explaining how setup uses the windows network interface would help.
>>
>> If it helps, I tried installing Cygwin from scratch and it will not even
>> download the list of mirrors. If I add a specific mirror I get the same
>> subject error message. Clearly setup is having trouble communicating on
>> the network and it is probably related to something left over from the
>
> Have you tried to download setup.ini manually?
>
> Are you able to access for example:
>
> ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/x86/setup.ini
>
>
> or any other mirror using a browser or wget? Maybe setup is blocked by
> something, maybe you can see it in the taskmanager.
>
> Have you tried apt-cyg? That seems to do a better job than setup
> anyway, at least at uninstalling things (different issue), but needs a
> base-cygwin ;)
>
> -Helmut
>
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