setup.exe[i] only creates directory tree

Thu Apr 20 12:12:00 GMT 2000

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:26:13PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
>>I'm subscribed to the digest, but haven't seen this mentioned lately.
>>The setup.exe (built yesterday afternoon, it tells me) does an excellent
>job of creating the directory structure, but doesn't retrieve anything.
>It prompts for the FTP site, says it's connected, thinks about it for a
>few seconds, then exits with "Installation took 79 seconds."
>>There's nothing there afterwards. What am I missing? :-)

Possibly you're missing a valid ftp site, from the sound of it. If you're
using sourceware, it's pretty overloaded right now. I would suggest
trying various ftp sites.
Alternatively, you can download the tar files yourself to one directory
and just run setup there, using the 'd' option.
cgf
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com