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RE: setup.exe: Woe is me!
- From: Phil Bewig <pbewig at swbell dot net>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:25:18 -0500
- Subject: RE: setup.exe: Woe is me!
- Reply-to: "pbewig at swbell dot net" <pbewig at swbell dot net>
On Saturday, April 26, 2003 8:49 PM, Greg McCrory [SMTP:greg at coolbrew dot com] wrote:
> At 4/26/2003 08:13 PM -0500, Phil Bewig wrote:
> >I just killed setup.exe after over an hour of inactivity. A total
> >of over 125MB of disk space has disappeared in the last few
> >hours while I have been running setup.exe, reading and
> >replying to email on the cygwin mailing list in this thread
> >using MS Outlook, and searching the cygwin mailing list
> >archives with MSIE. When I killed setup.exe (using the
> >"cancel" button on the progress screen), I received a popup
> >message "Cannot open log file d:\/var/log/setup.log for
> >writing." Are there any additional clues here? What is
> >consuming disk? And how do I get it back?
> >
> >Thanks again,
> >
> >Phil
>
>
> My firewall has gotten in the way many times with cygwin setup. Try
> disabling your firewall just during setup. Also, maybe try using a
> different mirror, you may be experiencing long network delays. My cygwin
> install dir currently contains 145 mb of downloaded data.
>
> GMc
>
On some of the attempts I started by rebooting the machine, not
enabling the DSL connection or the firewall, and running setup. I
have no problem downloading the data; it is stored in d:\package,
from where I do a local install. The problem happens after the
MD5 checksum.
Phil
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