setup.exe won't unpack the download

[E Shon <eshon at mills dot edu>]

I'm a lowly newbie and have been trying to install Cygwin in Windows XP 
for the past 4 days to no avail and am about to throw in the towel...

Using the latest version of setup.exe 2.427 I can't even get bash 
started.  The setup.exe seems to complete normally but none of the 
zipped packages seem to get unpacked: all the *.tar.bz2's are there but 
they don't get unpacked into .exe's...

For example, I have "bash-2.05b-16.tar.bz2" within the release subfolder 
in my c:\cygwinInstall download directory and setup.exe says 
"Installing..." at some point but in the end i can't find bash.exe or 
even the 'bin' folder within c:\cygwin although I know bash.exe is in 
that zipped file.  Same is true for all the other *.tar.bz2's...

I've done the following:

- turned off all anti-virus software and all personal firewalls for the 
download

- downloaded the default packages to C:\cygwin using setup.exe five 
separate times after completely erasing all occurences of the word 
cygwin on my harddrive before a fresh install, and have tried 
downloading from different mirrors

- have changed my Path variable so that "c:\cygwin\bin" and "c:\cygwin" 
are included in it

- for each attempt i've run setup.exe at least twice, once to download, 
a second time to install (have also tried installing directly from the 
internet)  First time it says "Installation complete" second time it 
says "Nothing needed to be installed"

- set the installation to All Users, have tried both Dos and Unix text 
mode on completely separate attempts, have tried re-installing packages

- when i click on the Cygwin icon cygwin.bat won't run because it can't 
find bash.exe....which makes sense since nothing has actually unpacked...

Here is what my current setup.log says:

2004/11/05 10:41:16 Starting cygwin install, version 2.427
2004/11/05 10:41:16 Current Directory: C:\cygwinInstall
2004/11/05 10:41:16 Changing gid to Users
2004/11/05 10:41:16 Could not open service McShield for query, start and 
stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2004/11/05 10:41:22 source: download
2004/11/05 10:41:23 Selected local directory: C:\cygwinInstall
2004/11/05 10:41:24 net: Direct
2004/11/05 10:41:27 site: http://planetmirror.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin
2004/11/05 10:41:47 mbox note: Download Complete
2004/11/05 10:41:48 Ending cygwin install

(I've also tried installing with McShield turned on on a separate 
occasion and got the same log entry for McShield...)

Sorry to bother the list, but I've stepped through the Cygwin FAQ many 
times, have been Googling and looking around the Cygwin mailing list 
archives for the past two days and can't find any clues.

- Baffled student



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