I'm fresh to this list so please excuse if this is a common kind of question.
I can't get to cygwin.com from my home PC. I wondered if this is because of problems with my telewest/blueyonder ISP; looking at the site from another ISP I don't see any problems. Whatever: My question is: can I install cygwin without access to cygwin.com, and if so, how? Here is what I've done: found a mirror site and downloaded setup.exe ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/ run setup.exe It can't get the list of mirrors, presumably because it can't contact cygwin.com. So setup fails. I tried downloading setup.bz2 as well in the hope that setup.exe would find it before trying to download it, but no joy. >From the FAQ: >If you are downloading from the internet, setup will fail if it cannot >download the list of mirrors at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html. It >could be that the network is too busy. Similarly for an ftp download >site that isn't working. Try another mirror, or try again later. I would try another mirror if I knew how. Is there any way of configuring setup.exe not to use cygwin.com to get its list of mirror sites, or to specify exactly which mirror site should be used? any help much appreciated, Matt. -- == . Matt Fairtlough . == -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
