Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

["Bernd Bartmann" <bernd dot bartmann at gmail dot com>]

On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wrote:
>   Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email
> addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by
> spammers.  (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for justification).

Dave, thanks for the hint. I'll try to take care of this in the
future, but I really think this should be done central on the mailing
list server by the mailing list software that creates the list
archives.

>   There should be no need to go that far.  If you just re-run setup.exe,
> choosing "Install from internet"  and then clicking "Next" all the way through
> without altering anything, it should just update your installation and, as
> part of that, it will verify the installed packages and attempt to install
> anything missing.  So hopefully it'll only download anything that failed last
> time, or if it downloaded ok but the install step failed last time, it'll just
> re-run the install step.
>
>   It should be much easier than redownloading the whole thing.  If for any
> reason it doesn't work, you could try manually selecting the "libintl3"
> package on the package chooser page to "Reinstall".

The system I'm trying to install to is on a separate lab network that
has no direct internet access. I need to take a CD or USB stick
containing the install packages to the target system.

Best regards,
Bernd.

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