Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
. Reformatting. Morgan Gangwere wrote: On 3/12/07, Pranav Peshwe gmailcom> wrote: On 3/9/07, fergus bonharduklinuxnet> wrote: ^ . Don't feed the spammers.

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-12 Thread Morgan Gangwere
well, this makes a point that we need to address. I keep this structure: N:\Cygtemp\ - Temp dir for cygwin packages N:\Documents And Settings\(username)\Desktop\CygSetup.exe (replace N: with any drive name... like X:\ or Q:\) i simply point (Cyg)Setup.exe to n:\Cygtemp\ and it picks up the mirro

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-11 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On 3/9/07, fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? >> is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ? I don't really know why you didn't get setup.ini along with setup.exe and release/ when you ran wget. It should be colocated with the file setup.exe and the

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, fergus wrote: > >> Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? > >> is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ? > > I don't really know why you didn't get setup.ini along with setup.exe > and release/ when you ran wget. It should be colocated with the file > setup.exe and the di

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-08 Thread Pranav Peshwe
(kindly find the replies inline) On 3/9/07, fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? >> is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ? I don't really know why you didn't get setup.ini along with setup.exe and release/ when you ran wget. It should be colocat

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-08 Thread fergus
>> Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? >> is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ? I don't really know why you didn't get setup.ini along with setup.exe and release/ when you ran wget. It should be colocated with the file setup.exe and the directory release/. It is not a requirement

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-08 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On 3/9/07, fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's some kind of characteristic of Windows architecture which means that if you are trying to install Cygwin from a release stored on a local drive (or CD or as in your case a USB device) then the attempt will fail if setup.exe and setup.ini are lo

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-08 Thread fergus
There's some kind of characteristic of Windows architecture which means that if you are trying to install Cygwin from a release stored on a local drive (or CD or as in your case a USB device) then the attempt will fail if setup.exe and setup.ini are located at H:/ and release/ is located at H:/

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-08 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On 3/8/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pranav Peshwe wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install cygwin(using the version of setup.exe > on cygwin homepage) on my Intel P4(Prescott) with Windows XP SP2 and > 256+512 MB RAM. > I've wgetted the entire cygwin release

Re: setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Pranav Peshwe wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install cygwin(using the version of setup.exe on cygwin homepage) on my Intel P4(Prescott) with Windows XP SP2 and 256+512 MB RAM. I've wgetted the entire cygwin release from mirrors.kernel.org and stored it on my (USB) hdd.When i select

setup.exe crashes on WinXP SP2

2007-03-08 Thread Pranav Peshwe
Hello, I'm trying to install cygwin(using the version of setup.exe on cygwin homepage) on my Intel P4(Prescott) with Windows XP SP2 and 256+512 MB RAM. I've wgetted the entire cygwin release from mirrors.kernel.org and stored it on my (USB) hdd.When i select 'install from local di