This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: cygwin and XP
Bruce, you might like to try one of the recent setup snapshots. We're
approaching feature freeze for a new release, and all feedback is
useful.
Rob
===
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin@imageworks.com>
To: "Matthew Cary" <cary@cs.washington.edu>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: cygwin and XP
> I don't have a solution, but I have seen this before on both Win2k
and NT4.
> I was installing onto machines that were on wireless networks and I
> attributed it to dropping connections/ slow net interface. It seemed
to
> download a few things and then bug out with the error you mentioned.
I
> later burned our local cygwin install build to a CD and it worked
fine,
> this probably isn't a good solution, but perhaps it will help
illuminate
> the problem.
>
> (PS, the new "setup" drives me nuts too, especially 'cause it often
seems
> to punt cygncurses5.dll unless you specifically tell it to re-install)
>
...
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/