Your description makes it sound very much as though one or both of the following has occurred:
1. You put the file setup.exe and the directory release/ directly under d:/. For reasons described at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00689.html this usually fails. or 2. You missed the file setup.ini. However: installation from a CD has worked successfully for me: see the text at the top of the link referenced above for the appropriate architecture. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/