Suggestion to avoid cywin and X/xorg related installation problems like setup eating up all memory at ~93% progress and crashing with runtime errors like the "application requested to be terminated in an unusual way"

Hi, On a freshly installed windows xp pro sp2 machine the latest cygwin setup crashes while installing the X packages during a full install (more precisely it fails while running the xorg-devel sh script) After painfully combing through the mailing list I found the recommended solution was to

setup.ini has an error on all the mirrors!!! Please rectify asap.

-redhat.mirror.redwire.net and mirrors.rcn.net. Anyone know of a working mirror? Thanks Emmanuel - Original Message - From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Emmanuel E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:08 AM Subject: Re: Set

Setup.ini has an error on all the mirrors!!! Please rectify asap.

Setup.ini has an unwanted comma in line 1537. The cygwin setup utility fails on parsing line 1537. Line 1537 should read "requires: cygwin e2fsprogs" and not "requires: cygwin, e2fsprogs". Could someone kindly rectify this at the earliest? All the cygwin mirrors are facing this problem. Thanks and