RE: Cygwin Install error on Windows 2000 professional

[Dave Brunberg <DBrunberg at FBLEOPOLD dot com>]

Attached is the setup.log.full file... not much info here.



> -
> 
> Dave Brunberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a problem installing cygwin on windows 2000 
> professional.  I've
> > successfully installed cygwin on win [95,98,NT4] and have 
> not run into
> this
> > sort of problem before.
> >
> > Short version:
> >
> > I run setup.exe, "Download from Internet"  I choose 
> All->Install and let
> it
> > download from the ftp.nas.nasa.gov mirror.
> > After all has been dl'd, I run setup.exe as Administrator and choose
> > "Install from Local Directory"
> > I choose All->Install, and let 'er rip.
> > After all files are copied, etc., the setup script fails by 
> not finding a
> > multitude of dlls, including cygiconv-2.dll, cygintl??.dll, 
> and a few
> other
> > ones which appear to be more or less required.  The PATH is 
> ok, and the
> > directories in the specified PATH exist.
> > The install script fails at every step which runs a program 
> (sed is one
> > major one) that requires one of the missing dlls.
> >
> > I check the installed C:\cygwin tree, and lo and behold, 
> those files are
> not
> > to be found, in the PATH nor elsewhere.  I can open a bash 
> shell, but even
> > simple things like 'ls' give me "command not found".
> >
> > Then I deleted the installed tree, the Cygnus registry 
> keys, and tried to
> > install the bare bones cygwin, but I have the same problems 
> with missing
> > libraries.
> >
> > This is all done with the latest version of cygwin that I 
> dl'd two days
> ago.
> >
> > Can anyone offer me some advice?  Is there anything special 
> about win2k I
> > should know to install cygwin?
> 
> 
> How strange. Please attach the setup.log.full logfile that 
> setup produces
> (in the /var/log directory under the Cygwin root).
> 
> 
> Max.
>

Attachment: setup.log.full
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