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Re: setup-x86_64.exe Unable to get setup.ini on all mirrors
- From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut dot karlowski at ish dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 15:00:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe Unable to get setup.ini on all mirrors
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- References: <55D5E2D2 dot 1040308 at bellsouth dot net> <55D9C8F2 dot 4090608 at bellsouth dot net>
Am 23.08.2015, 14:21 Uhr, schrieb Dennis Putnam:
Since I have gotten no response to this and am stuck I assume my problem
is badly worded. I don't know how else to present it. Perhaps someone
explaining how setup uses the windows network interface would help.
If it helps, I tried installing Cygwin from scratch and it will not even
download the list of mirrors. If I add a specific mirror I get the same
subject error message. Clearly setup is having trouble communicating on
the network and it is probably related to something left over from the
Have you tried to download setup.ini manually?
Are you able to access for example:
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/x86/setup.ini
or any other mirror using a browser or wget? Maybe setup is blocked by
something, maybe you can see it in the taskmanager.
Have you tried apt-cyg? That seems to do a better job than setup anyway,
at least at uninstalling things (different issue), but needs a base-cygwin
;)
-Helmut
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