running setup does nothing
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Wed Apr 30 16:27:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, David T-G wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> What are the minimum system requirements for setup? I have a Win95 PC
> with 128M RAM and about 60M free on the 400M disk, and when I try to run
> either an old version of setup that I burned to CD (with the then-current
> sources) or the current setup from the "Install Cygwin NOW" link) nothing
> happens; I get an hourglass and then as soon as I move the mouse it
> changes back to a pointer.
>
> Any thoughts? If it isn't a system requirements problem, then what do I
> need to do to debug?
David,
AFAIK, setup runs under Win95. 128M RAM shouldn't be a problem. Disk
space might be, but setup will not use up 60M of space before it even pops
up the window, so that shouldn't matter.
Come to think of it, *does* setup show a window? If it does, which stage
to you get to by the time an hourglass appears? If not, please post the
output of "dir setup.exe" from the command prompt. Does the *same*
executable run on another machine (I'm thinking binary/ascii transfer
problems)?
IIRC, Win95 was notoriously lacking tools for program monitoring and
debugging. Perhaps someone actually using it may be able to help.
Igor
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