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Re: installing Cygwin from CD-ROM
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: Michael Wardle <michael dot wardle at adacel dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: installing Cygwin from CD-ROM
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Michael Wardle wrote:
> Hi
Hi Michael,
> I downloaded the latest available Cygwin release (2.218) in full from a
> local mirror using wget, and burned it onto a CD (setup.exe is at the
> root level). When I try to run setup.exe directly off the CD and point
> it at E:\ for packages, the installer seems to sit there idle, yet if I
> copy the CD's contents to a local hard disk and run setup from there, it
> works correctly.
>
> Any idea what the problem might be?
What kind of system are you running on? What's your burner software and
what CD format/options are you setting? I grab most all of Cygwin, burn
to CD, and install from it on a fairly regular basis and I've not seen
this problem. When you copy the CD to local disk, do you copy it
completely? I presume you create a subdirectory on the local disk any
copy it to that? As an off chance, try burning Cygwin under some
toplevel directory, like E:\cygwin instead of having it at the root of
the CD. Also, only copy the 'release' directory and the setup.* files.
Just as an aside, I have seen a seemingly hanging condition while
installing from a network mounted Windows Share (actually a Samba
server). Copying it locally did not solve the problem, however. After
some paring down of extraneous directories, I discovered that the
toplevel directory 'xfree' was causing the hang. If I renamed 'xfree'
to, say, 'old_xfree' the hang didn't occur. I have not had time to run
setup under debug to shoot the problem.
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Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
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