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Re: newsetup does nothing
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: newsetup does nothing
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:27:04 -0400
- References: <3905F657.CA53446B@redhat.co.uk>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 08:47:35PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>I just wiped my windows partition of all traces of its old cygwin
>installation (including registry) so I could install 1.1.
>
>With the setup.exe I just downloaded, nothing happens once it gets to the
>install stage. After I tell it to use the default c:\cygwin root and
>internet install, it just reports:
>
>-=-=-=-=-
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Creating the uninstall file...Done.
>
>Installation took 24 seconds.
>-=-=-=-=-
>
>and setup.log contains just the uninstall line.
>
>oldsetup.exe gets further, but not much:
This isn't getting any further. It's just printing more messages.
Judging by the fact that this is printing something with the name
"Squid" in it, I assume that there is some problem there. There isn't
any users-guide.tar.gz available for downloading.
The setup code is using generic Microsoft Internet API calls to download
stuff but apparently this isn't foolproof.
cgf
>-=-=-=-=-=-
>[snip]
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Connecting to ftp site...Done.
>Unable to open "\s45.12" for output: No such file or directory
>
>Downloading: users-guide.tar.gz...Error retrieving
>"http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz".
>
>Unable to retrieve
>http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz
>Downloading: users-guide.tar.gz...Error retrieving
>"http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Users-Guide/../users-guide.tar.gz".
>[repeat ad nauseam]
>-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>and it just keeps failing to download.
>
>Obviously I can download all the .tar.gz's by hand, but still...
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