After the try again suggestion failing, I cd'd to G:/installs/cygwin/packages/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwi n%2f/release and did a mkdir -p GNOME/_obsolete/atk.
Then I tried setup again, and it got past that package and came to another where it claimed it couldn't write to base-cygwin. So I did a mkdir base-cygwin and tried again. Then it got to where it claimed it couldn't write to base-files, so I did a mkdir base-files. Then it got to where it claimed it couldn't write to base-passwd, so I decided this is getting very very old. Something isn't right. Yet, 1.5.25 never had such troubles in this directory.... Harry McGavran -- Harry G. McGavran, Jr. E-mail: w5...@arrl.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple