Re: Help with setup utility (v1.43)

[Alexander Anderson <lists at almide dot demon dot co dot uk>]

In article <20000519131129.26093.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com>, Earnie 
Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> writes

>Is it IE5 that you have installed or an earlier version?  If you have IE5
>installed then it is probably a timeout problem and the solution would be to
>keep trying.


    I  use a mail/news reader called "Turnpike" to connect to my ISP De-
mon Internet over a modem.  I'm saying that once  connected,  the  Win32
FTP command works fine, as does Internet Explorer (3 in fact).


    However,  setup.exe  always bombs out in the same way, regardless of
whether I'm connected or not:


        J:\Cupboard.my\archive.zip\CygWin\latest>setup
        
        This is the Cygwin setup utility (v1.43),
        built on May  2 2000 01:00:30.
        
        Use this program to install the latest version of the Cygwin Utilities
        from the Internet.
        
        Alternatively, if you already have already downloaded the appropriate files
        to the current directory (and subdirectories below it), this program can use
        those as the basis for your installation.
        
        If you are installing from the Internet, please run this program in an empty
        temporary directory.
        
        Press <enter> to accept the default value.
        Root directory? [C:\] c:\
        Install from the current directory (d) or from the Internet (i)? [i] i
        Connecting to sourceware.cygnus.com...(try 40)
        Couldn't connect to ftp site.
        The parameter is incorrect.
        
        Unable to retrieve the list of cygwin mirrors.
        Couldn't connect to download site.
        
        J:\Cupboard.my\archive.zip\CygWin\latest>


    What am I doing wrong?


    Ideally  I  would  like  to know what options I could supply to set-
up.exe to get it to produce debugging diagnostics.  Unfortunately  setup
doesn't  understand /?, /h, /help, -h or --help, and I'm not enough of a
command line guru to guess any more.


With kind regards,


Sandy
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