Re: setup.exe[i] only creates directory tree

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:26:13PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
>I'm subscribed to the digest, but haven't seen this mentioned lately.
>
>The setup.exe (built yesterday afternoon, it tells me) does an excellent
>job of creating the directory structure, but doesn't retrieve anything.
>It prompts for the FTP site, says it's connected, thinks about it for a
>few seconds, then exits with "Installation took 79 seconds."
>
>There's nothing there afterwards.  What am I missing?  :-)

Possibly you're missing a valid ftp site, from the sound of it.  If you're
using sourceware, it's pretty overloaded right now.  I would suggest
trying various ftp sites.

Alternatively, you can download the tar files yourself to one directory
and just run setup there, using the 'd' option.

cgf

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