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Re: "Nothing needed to be installed" setup problem
- From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:51:35 -0800
- Subject: Re: "Nothing needed to be installed" setup problem
From: "Phil Mitchell" <phil.mitchell@pobox.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 15:26
Subject: "Nothing needed to be installed" setup problem
> I have the latest version of setup.exe, but older versions of contrib and
> latest (from July of last year). I am trying to install cygwin on a
machine
> without internet access, and that's what I've got on cdrom.
Is the setup.ini from the CDROM as well? A newer setup.ini will probably
refer to the wrong versions of most of the packages.
> I am installing from c:\temp into c:\cygwin. In setup, I click on the
> little circle arrows until it says "install", but then it finishes and
> tells me there was nothing to install. I also tried telling it to
> "reinstall" -- same result.
>
> Setup does not seem to leave a logfile any more, either.
The log files from setup.exe are now written to /var/log/ . The
setup.log.full there may shed some light on what is happening.
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