Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

[Wayne Watson]

Yes, I chose download. I had trouble with an earlier attempt a few days 
ago installing from the internet. So, can I proceed with what I have?

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:35:13AM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote:
>   
>> Bromly or not, note that I successfully downloaded via the redhat
>> choice give in the setup wizard.  There's no need to think about
>> Bromly.  Here's are the last few lines of the log from the redhat
>> download:
>>
>> ...
>> C:\Downloads_Programs\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fsources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net%2fcygwin%2f/release/zlib/zlib0/zlib0-1.2.3-3.tar.bz2
>> 2009/04/21 00:26:19 Downloaded 
>> C:\Downloads_Programs\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fsources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net%2fcygwin%2f/release/_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00815-1.tar.bz2
>> 2009/04/21 00:27:19 note: Download Complete
>> 2009/04/21 00:27:19 Ending cygwin install
>>     
>
> That's not a "redhat choice".  It's the redwire mirror.
>
>   
>> The install ended, but am I installed to execute Cygwin? I see nothing on 
>> the Start->Run Programs menu about Cygwin, and nothing on the desktop.
>>
>> From the top few lines:
>> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 Starting cygwin install, version 2.573.2.3
>> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed 
>> 2 No such file or directory
>> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-mirror) failed 
>> 2 No such file or directory
>> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-connection) 
>> failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed 
>> 2 No such file or directory
>> ...
>>
>> What next?
>>     
>
> If you don't see anything on the desktop it sounds like you chose the "Download"
> rather than the "Install" selection in setup.exe.
>
> cgf
>
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