Larry Hall wrote: > Monwhea Jeng wrote:
>> I'm installing cygwin from downloaded files on my >> work computers (one running a fresh installation >> of Windows >> Vista, and the other running Windows Server 2003). >> I've downloaded all files for installing everything >> (not just the defaults). Setup claims a successful >> setup, and the setup.log.full files reports no >> errors. >> However, when I click on the cygwin icon, a window >> opens and closes very quickly. When I open up a >> Windows command prompt, and run cygwin.bat from the >> command line, it tells me that 'bash' is not >> recognized as a command. And indeed, when I go to >> the bin directory, I see no bash.exe (although >> there are a host of other executables there). I >> didn't find this >> problem discussed on the mailing archives or Google >> groups (although I note that >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/200808/msg00554.html >> reports a problem with the same symptoms). > What does the 'cygcheck' output look like? > Does 'setup.log' > say anything useful? I don't (err, make that didn't---see below) have a cygcheck in my bin either. setup.log didn't appear to have anything useful; at the last attempted installation before my first e-mail, it just quickly listed a bunch of files, and then said "note: Nothing needed to be installed." "Ending cygwin install." >> Incidentally, I don't know if this could be >> related, but when I run setup.exe at work and >> select "Install >> from Internet," the list of download sites comes up >> empty, and entering URL's by hand doesn't work. > Are you working through a proxy server? How do you > access the Internet through IE, for example? Does > choosing "Use IE5 Settings" or "Use HTTP/FTP Proxy" > rather than the default "Direction Connection" make > any difference? I for some reason didn't think to try the other settings until you mentioned them (partially due to stupidity, but also because I just thought that I'd do it from downloaded files). I've tried with the IE5 Settings several times now. I do get a list of download sites. Most times it's gotten stuck at the very start, unable to load a setup.bz2 file. More recently it's gotten stuck at "99%" setup, saying "No package. . . /etc/post-install/post-texmf." At this point the installation doesn't quite finish, but I do have bash and cygcheck in the bin. So hopefully I can figure out why the setup isn't quite finishing by reading the documentation on cygcheck and trying to decipher the new setup.log file. If you have any additional suggestions, that would be great, but your comment above was plenty helpful. Thanks for your help! Momo -- 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/
