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Re: Strange setup problem. Next button disabled.
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Steve Fairbairn" <steve dot fairbairn at perwill dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:55:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: Strange setup problem. Next button disabled.
- References: <D721826DEE793D49BC49582C121EDD3E3F54B0@exchange.perwill.com>
Steve Fairbairn wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a couple of strange setup problems which I cannot find ways around,
> so was wondering if anyone might be able to suggest solutions.
>
> The machine in question is a PIII 650MHz running a very new installation
of
> Win2K Pro.
>
> During the machines installation, cygwin was installed from a local
(network
> drive) directory as the network Administrator user. It was incorrectly
> installed to the same network drive and subdirectory of the setup files,
> using the default setup settings.
>
> This installation was wiped from the network drive in question. Any
mention
> of Cygnus was wiped from the registry. A clean installation of cygwin was
> started.
>
> When installing as a machine administrator, but normal network user. From
> local directory (the same network drive), setup does all the md5 checks,
> offers me the package list, allows me to change the
> Default/Install/Reinstall/... settings, but the 'Next' button is
permanently
> disabled and I just can't click on it.
Strange - very strange, even.
Please try the latest (2.415) snapshot - I don't expect it to help, but just
in case.
If you can still reproduce the problem... well, I suppose I could add some
debug MessageBoxes.
Please follow up to cygwin-apps@, since this is clearly a setup.exe issue.
Max.
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