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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:00:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <marcos@it.uc3m.es>
To: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup can't install from local drive?
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

     > Your description makes it sound very much as though one or both of the
     > following has occurred:
     >
     > 1. You put the file setup.exe and the directory release/ directly under d:/.
     > For reasons described at
     > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00689.html
     > this usually fails.
     >
     > or
     >
     > 2. You missed the file setup.ini.

I understand that maybe setup.exe and setup.ini are on the CD and AFAIK
setup.exe needs to modify setup.ini, so maybe this crashes the
installation. Try copying setup.exe on local drive, choose install from
local archive, and select <cdrom>:/whatever_folder_is

Maybe this works ;)

regrds,
m4c.


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