On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:32:07PM -0800, E Shon wrote: >I'm a lowly newbie and have been trying to install Cygwin in Windows XP >for the past 4 days to no avail and am about to throw in the towel... >[snip] >- downloaded the default packages to C:\cygwin using setup.exe five >separate times after completely erasing all occurences of the word >cygwin on my harddrive before a fresh install, and have tried >downloading from different mirrors
It sounds like you are using the "download" rather than the "install" option when running setup.exe. If you are really a newbie and decided to change the default while installing, then... why would you do that? -- 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/
