Re: Setup broke on my install base

[John Sellers <jsellers at sellers dot com>]

Thanks, my new DSL account was just activated so I re-installed cygwin 
to test out the connection.  Everything worked.  I then duplicated the 
behavior I saw, and played with a number of mirrors.  I now think that 
what people told me in the first place was correct, but I have no 
explanation of why I earlier saw similar behavior when trying other 
mirror sites.  The only explanation I can think of is that the PEBCAK.  :-)

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> John,
>
> First, try selecting a different mirror.  Setup will not re-download the
> packages you already have in the cache, even if the mirror is no longer
> accessible.
>
> If you get that problem with all the mirrors, try accessing
> <http://cygwin.com/mirrors.txt> and
> <http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.ini> from your
> web browser.  If you succeed, try to download the packages again after
> setting the "Connection" selector to "Use IE5 Settings" in setup.
> 	Igor
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, John Sellers wrote:
>
>  
>
> > A while back, setup stopped working when downloading, although I could
> > still install, and uninstall locally.   What is the best route to fixing
> > this without modifying a substantual installed base?
> >
> >    
[SNIP]


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