On 11 September 2006 13:49, John Smith wrote: > Having successfully installed Cygwin on my desktop machine (XP Home, > SP2, fully patched), I wanted to install it on my laptop (XP Pro, SP2, > fully patched). I downloaded the current setup.exe and ran it, > accepting the default values till I came to the "choice of mirror" > screen. I chose my mirror, and clicked on "Next". The machine showed > me a split-second Blue Screen of Death, then rebooted. Three repeated > attempts brought exactly the same result.
Most likely your software firewall is buggy. Second most likely, your antivirus. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/