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RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "'Carl Sorensen'" <carl_sorensen at byu dot edu>,"'Ton van Overbeek'" <tvoverbe at cistron dot nl>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>,<johnm at falch dot net>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:27:58 +1000
- Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file from prc-tools mirror
You need a trailing / on the custom URL.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Carl Sorensen
> Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 9:00 AM
> To: 'Ton van Overbeek'; cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; johnm@falch.net
> Subject: RE: Setup 2.218.2.9 fails to read setup.ini file
> from prc-tools mirror
>
>
> Ton wrote:
>
>
> >
> > One thing Carl could try is to use the latest setup snapshot on
> > http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/.
> > The latest one right now is setup-2.249.exe.
> > See if the problem is still there on XP with that version.
> >
>
> I followed this advice
>
> The result:
>
> An error window titled "Cygwin Setup" gives the message
> "Unable to get setup.ini from
> http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install".
>
> I pointed my
> browser at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/setup.ini
> and successfully downloaded a copy of the setup.ini file.
>
> Two questions:
> (1) is there a way to make setup.exe use the setup.ini from
> my drive, rather than getting a copy from the prc-tools site?
>
> (2) Is there something different about the way setup
> processes http:// mirror sites instead of ftp:// mirror sites?
>
> Carl
>
>