Installation problem: nothing to install?

Installation problem: nothing to install?

[Phil Mitchell]

I'm trying to do a full, clean Cygwin install on win 98 SE. I'm installing
from a local directory, b/c I have a slow internet connection and downloaded
the files elsewhere and sneakermailed them to my local hard drive. When I
run setup.exe, I get to the part where I'm supposed to tell it which
packages to install, and there aren't any to select. setup.log tells me
there was nothing to install. I'm using the latest setup (2.57).

I have read through the mail archives and it seems that others have had this
problem, but no solutions were posted.

TIA,

Phil


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Re: Installation problem: nothing to install?

[Brian Keener]

Phil,

Did you maintain the directory structure of the download directory when you 
moved it to the new computer and did you make sure you have a copy of 
setup.ini.  These are both critical for success.

bk



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Re: Installation problem: nothing to install?

[Max Bowsher]

You MUST copy setup.ini as well as latest/ and contrib/
Max.

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Mitchell <phil.mitchell@pobox.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:04 AM
Subject: Installation problem: nothing to install?


> I'm trying to do a full, clean Cygwin install on win 98 SE. I'm installing
> from a local directory, b/c I have a slow internet connection and
downloaded
> the files elsewhere and sneakermailed them to my local hard drive. When I
> run setup.exe, I get to the part where I'm supposed to tell it which
> packages to install, and there aren't any to select. setup.log tells me
> there was nothing to install. I'm using the latest setup (2.57).
>
> I have read through the mail archives and it seems that others have had
this
> problem, but no solutions were posted.
>
> TIA,
>
> Phil
>
>
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