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Re: Installing from downloaded files or CD
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: Installing from downloaded files or CD |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:34:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Peter Flynn writes:
> Unfortunately when I put this onto a CD and run setup.exe on the
> target machine, and pick "Install from directory" it starts to
> install Cygwin, and then pops up a little box saying Setup has
> encountered an error, the installation is being aborted, and do I
> want to send a notification of the error to Microsoft.
How far did it get? What does /var/log/setup*.log say?
> I copied
> all the CD to \tmp and tried from the hard disk but got the same
> problem. The CD contains:
>
> $ ls -l /tmp/lily
> total 296
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 peter peter 17790 Feb 11 2004 cyg-apt
> drwxrwxr-x 3 peter peter 4096 Sep 23 14:58 etc
> drwxrwxr-x 3 peter peter 4096 Sep 23 14:59
> http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 268800 Apr 25 16:03 setup.exe
> $
>
> Does that look right?
Yes. Can you `tar tjf' all the archives?
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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Re: Installing from downloaded files or CD, Erik Sandberg, 2004/09/22