Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <002f01c30b41$d04ea2a0$0100007f@localdomain> From: "Anthony M. Saffer" To: "Robert Pollard" Cc: References: <23220055-7734-11D7-AB0C-0003930A6566@apple.com> Subject: Re: Problems with Win 98 SE CYGWin Installation Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:46:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Hi Robert, It seems that was the problem. I just let the setup program sit and cook for a while and it finally responded. Thanks for the input and thanks to everyone who offered help! Anthony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Pollard" To: "Anthony M. Saffer" Cc: Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Problems with Win 98 SE CYGWin Installation > I have had the same experience. I later found out I wasn't being > patient enough. This process takes a while. Once the packages are > displayed and you try changing the install status it will also take a > while to change the status sometimes. Whatever language or process > they're using to handle the packages is very slow. I don't know how > much time you give it but you may want to take a nap or get a drink > while it tries to load packages. > My machine is a 800 MHz Pentium III system and it takes several minutes > for the packages to display. > > I hope this is all it is. > > HTH, > > Robert > > On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 06:26 PM, Anthony M. Saffer wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I've recently downloaded the setup.exe program from the website and > > every > > time I get to the package selection section of the program my machine > > hangs. > > I'm running Windows 98 Second Edition and it's patched as of the last > > fix > > Microsoft issued for Win 98 SE. I've searched the archives and found > > the > > issues with AV software and I've followed the instructions and it still > > hangs. I've even completely disabled both my firewall and my AV > > program with > > no luck. Can anyone tell me what might be the problem? > > > > Thanks! > > Anthony Saffer > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/