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: From: Fergus Daly To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net Subject: Re: Install problem Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:07:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h9H7Cc4D021122 >> Can't get list of download sites. >> Make sure your network settings are correct and try again.   After years of successful Cygwin installs/updates both at home and work I moved yesterday to a new workplace and got just this message on attempting a new installation on the office-supplied LAN zero-privilege* God-knows-what machine. I changed from "Direct connection" to "Use IE5 settings" at the appropriate point during setup, and everything went smoothly thereafter.   (* I can't even format my own USB memory stick.)   Fergus -- 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/