install problem

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed May 3 11:58:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Chris Milner wrote:
>I could not get the setupprogram to work correctly.
>After typing setup-1.43.exe at the command prompt
>I got the following:
>
>
>|Connecting to sourceware.cygnus.com...(try 40)
>|Couldn't connect to ftp site.
>|The parameter is incorrect.
>|
>|Unable to retrieve the list of cygwin mirrors.
>|Couldn't connect to download site.
>
>Any suggestions? Are there any command line switches?
>ftp and telnet seem to work find and
>sourceware.cygnus.com is accepting http requests.

Sourcware is very busy.  That command probably indicates that there
were too many ftp users.  A mirror site might work better.

cgf

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