Thank you for all the replies. The problem was a firewall setting. Better debug output in the log would have helped to track it down myself.
Marek > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Chicares > Sent: Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 15:49 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Setup.exe 2.573.2.2 unable to retrieve mirror > list and setup.ini/setup.bz2 > > On 2008-02-05 14:16Z, Marek.Jawurek wrote: > [reformatted] > > On 2008-02-05 13:58Z, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >> > >> Can you retrieve the contents of the above URL using your browser > >> (IE, in particular)? If not, first get that to work, and > then try setup again. > >> If you can, then there may be a problem with setup, since > I see that > >> you're using IE5 settings to connect. Another option is to try > >> "Direct connection". > > > > I can open the mirror list with IE. I tried both, using the IE > > settings and providing it with the proxy information myself > in setup.exe. > > Does the proxy require password authentication? > > Is it possible that the firewall is specifically blocking > setup.exe as in this > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01458.html > message? > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
