At 06:36 PM 11/7/2004, you wrote: >>>- 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? > >I tried "Install from the Internet" the first time and nothing unpacked. So I >removed everything and tried install from the internet again, which still >didn't work. Third time I tried downloading to a local directory then running >setup.exe again to install it from that local directory... nothing seems to >work.
OK but output from 'setup.log' that you sent to the list indicates that what you did was a download from the Internet, which is why Chris made the comment he did. >Is there perhaps some special utility that doesn't automatically come with XP >for unzipping these *.tar.bz2's? Yes but unless you know what you're doing that 'special utility' is synonymous with 'setup.exe'. Based on your previous description, it sounds like you're attempting to install into the same directory you're downloading to. Don't do that. Download to one directory and install into a completely different one (and not one under the download directory). If this isn't the problem, my WAG is that you have a version of 'cygwin1.dll' already on your system, due to some previous install or some other software that uses Cygwin surrepticously. If this is true, remove all copies of 'cygwin1.dll' from your system and follow the uninstall directions here: <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19> If none of this describes your installation and/or helps, please follow the instructions at the uninstall link above, rerun 'setup.exe' as "Install from Internet", and *attach* the 'setup.log' file (assuming this time things don't just "work" for you). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
