On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:19:58AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > http://hands.com/~lkcl/cygwin > > > > Umm, doesn't look like you actually tried to install anything... Did you > > simply switch to partial view and then cancel? > > no - i didn't!! > > it's a minimum install which i downloaded earlier.
Hmm, weird. > btw - when it says the files aren't there (fopen failed) it's because > the files _aren't_ there!! > > should they be? Yes. > should they have been created? Yes, but possibly after a successful install. I just noticed the way the install database is managed in setup, and it's ghastly. I'll see if I can write something more sensible when I get a round tuit. > maybe this is something as weird as fopen() with create flags being > ignored... How are your permissions on c:\cygwin and c:\cygwin\etc? > > It would be interesting to see what the log looks like for a real > > install -- download from internet, etc. > > that's going to hammer my network for an hour: any suggestions on > minimum package (singular!) which will get info into the logs? There's no single package -- many things in the Base category are inter-dependent. However, if you switch back to the original mirror you used to download the packages, setup won't re-download stuff it already has in the cache. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/