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RE: Perennial problem with setup
- From: "Underwood, Jonathan" <Jonathan dot Underwood at nrc dot ca>
- To: 'Stephan Mueller' <smueller at microsoft dot com>, "Underwood, Jonathan" <Jonathan dot Underwood at nrc dot ca>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 15:33:00 -0400
- Subject: RE: Perennial problem with setup
In fact, it actually appears to be a mirror site dependent thing.
mirrors.rcn.net causes the reported fail, whereas using ftp.mirror.ac.uk
worked fine. I also noticed that many packages are much more up to date at
ftp.mirror.ac.uk than at mirrors.rcn.net, which i found surprising.
jonathan.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Mueller [mailto:smueller@microsoft.com]
> Sent: June 22, 2002 2:51 PM
> To: Underwood, Jonathan; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Perennial problem with setup
>
>
> The workaround that worked for me was to delete everything (actually
> rename my cygwin root) and start over. I had stuff from 'the
> old days'
> before each site you downloaded from had its own cache
> directory and it
> was nice to get rid of that too. I haven't seen the problem
> since (only
> a couple of minor updates in that time, but it looks promising.)
>
> stephan();
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:18 AM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Perennial problem with setup
>
>
> Hi
>
> I appear to still have problems running the cygwin setup program from
> the cygwin homepage. I reported this a while back, and using
> the latest
> snapshot seemed to fix the issue, however the snapshots have gone and
> the latest setup gives me the problem. The problem is that whenever i
> run setup, once i get to the download part i get the "Download
> incomplete" error box every time. This seems to have been an issue for
> me for some time, and i can;t think it's anything at my end, given i'm
> simply running the setup program.
>
> jonathan.
>
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