Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 04/21/2009, Wayne Watson wrote: Yes, I chose download. I had trouble with an earlier attempt a few days ago installing from the internet. So, can I proceed with what I have? Yes. Rerun 'setup.exe' and select "Install from Local Directory". This will allow you to specify the root directory

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Wayne Watson
Yes, I chose download. I had trouble with an earlier attempt a few days ago installing from the internet. So, can I proceed with what I have? Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:35:13AM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote: Bromly or not, note that I successfully downloaded via the re

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:35:13AM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote: >Bromly or not, note that I successfully downloaded via the redhat >choice give in the setup wizard. There's no need to think about >Bromly. Here's are the last few lines of the log from the redhat >download: > > ... > C:\Downloads_Pro

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Wayne Watson
Bromly or not, note that I successfully downloaded via the redhat choice give in the setup wizard. There's no need to think about Bromly. Here's are the last few lines of the log from the redhat download: ... C:\Downloads_Programs\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fsources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net%2fcygwin%2

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:29:20AM +, Jaroslav Rynik wrote: >>We *do* support the Cygwin distribution that you get by downloading >>from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.? > >I am not sure. When I wanted to install and run a BSD program on my >WIN XP using Cygwin, I had to download and install 2 ot

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:30:55AM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote: >That's fine. It's been a winding, tricky path to get to here. I'll >download it from the site you mentioned. There is no need to overcomplicate this. If you want to download Cygwin you go to the web site called "cygwin.com" and foll

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Jaroslav Rynik wrote: >> We *do* support the Cygwin distribution that you get by >> downloading from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. > I am not sure. When I wanted to install and run a BSD program on my WIN XP > using Cygwin, I had to download and install 2 other programs and in the end > there was

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Jaroslav Rynik
> We *do* support the Cygwin distribution that you get by > downloading > from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.  I am not sure. When I wanted to install and run a BSD program on my WIN XP using Cygwin, I had to download and install 2 other programs and in the end there was still something missing..

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-21 Thread Wayne Watson
That's fine. It's been a winding, tricky path to get to here. I'll download it from the site you mentioned. Well, I tried something like a bromly site and it died during the download. I then picked the redhat site, and it downloaded 15M. Both bromly and redhat release folders looked similar. Ab

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:06:57PM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote: >I finally carved out some time to install CygWin on my Win XP machine >via the RedHat Cygwin official installation facility. I downloaded >rhsetup.exe to start. Sorry but you don't get support for Red Hat's version of Cygwin here. We

Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-20 Thread Wayne Watson
I finally carved out some time to install CygWin on my Win XP machine via the RedHat Cygwin official installation facility. I downloaded rhsetup.exe to start. I requested install via the internet, and it died somewhere along the line. I then tried again, requesting download instead. I now have