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Installing cygwin in windowsXP - HELP!
- From: deepak s patwardhan <csd99440 at cse dot iitd dot ernet dot in>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:12:05 +0530 (IST)
- Subject: Installing cygwin in windowsXP - HELP!
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi,
I almost always work on linux, but presently I am forced to work on
windowsXP for sometime. So, I decided to install cygwin.
I downloaded the packages myself from one of the mirror sites on a
linux machine in my lab and copied onto my PC (instead of letting the
setup.exe download it because the net connection on my PC is very slow).
Now when I try to install cygwin, I give the directory where the packages
are kept, the setup starts and does something for sometime, but then gets
stuck and windows very nicely says that setup has encountered a problem
and needs to close.
I tried some tricks like looking at the problem causing package and
removed that from the package directory and agina trying the setup, and I
tried this many times with many packages. I tried to run the program in
windows98 compatibilty mode. But of no avail. It gets stuck somewhere or
the other.
Could anyone suggest a way out? (if any). Installing from internet is not
an option as net connection is very slow.
best regards,
deepak.
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