On 3/9/07, fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's some kind of characteristic of Windows architecture which means that if you are trying to install Cygwin from a release stored on a local drive (or CD or as in your case a USB device) then the attempt will fail if setup.exe and setup.ini are located at H:/ and release/ is located at H:/release/. For reasons that I do not understand you have to bury the Cygwin release at least one directory deep on the device, such asH:/Cyg0/setup.exe H:/Cyg0/setup.ini H:/Cyg0/release/ Any name for the burial site will do.
Thanks for the replies Larry,Fergus !! I did what you suggested. Still it crashes :( It crashes when i click on the 'Select local package directory' screen.The dir where i've stored the release has not yet come into picture. Also, i could not find the setup.ini file ? is it a requirement for setup.exe to run ? Just for info, the locations are: setup.exe is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin release is in J:\cygwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin\release J: is one of the FAT32 partitions on my USB HDD. I tried to run setup.exe from my PATA hdd,but no difference. Any suggestions ? Best regards, Pranav -- 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/
