setup-x86 unattended mode: crash when invoked from a dos console.

Tue Dec 1 09:54:00 GMT 2015

Hi Francis,
On Nov 30 23:59, Francis ANDRE wrote:
> Hi
>> The following set-x86.exe command in unattended mode crashes on Win7
>> C:\Users\FrancisANDRE>c:\cygwin\bin\uname.exe -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW idefix 2.3.1(0.291/5/3) 2015年11月14日 12:42 i686 Cygwin
>> C:\Users\FrancisANDRE>c:\cygwin\setup-x86.exe -B -D -q -n -d -R cygwin -s
> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cygwin -P unzip

The crash is not nice and I'm just looking into that, but the path you
specify with the -R option is supposed to be an absolute DOS path, e.g.
C:/cygwin. Please try this, it should get you further.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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