setup.exe won't unpack the download

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:32:07PM -0800, E Shon wrote:
>I'm a lowly newbie and have been trying to install Cygwin in Windows XP 
>for the past 4 days to no avail and am about to throw in the towel...
>[snip]
>- downloaded the default packages to C:\cygwin using setup.exe five 
>separate times after completely erasing all occurences of the word 
>cygwin on my harddrive before a fresh install, and have tried 
>downloading from different mirrors

It sounds like you are using the "download" rather than the "install"
option when running setup.exe.  If you are really a newbie and decided
to change the default while installing, then... why would you do that?

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