Re: setup cygwin freeze

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:47:24PM +1000, Ben Lawrence wrote:
>Hello, thanks Chris for your reply,
>Before I downloaded gcc I downloaded cygwin with
>setup cygwin
>Unfortunately, when I do, the computer (windows nt) seems to freeze when it
>tries to install cygwin.  I look up the processes and there's one called
>Mcshield.exe that is locking up the cpu.  The only thing I can do is hit the
>reset button because it won't allow me to end this task.

We've had reports of a bug in the Mcafee (sp?) virus scanner causing setup
"hangs".  Disable this before extracting cygwin.  I assume that that
is what "Mcshield" is.

>I had cygwin-B-20.1 before this but I thought I uninstalled it properly, even
>running umount.exe to unmount everything.

There should be no reason to uninstall or unmount anything, actually.

cgf

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