Message-Id: <200411250847.iAP8lWOE005748@delorie.com> 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 Reply-To: From: To: Cc: , Subject: Re: Setup and memory usage Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:42:42 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UoD-Spam-Score: -4.7 (----) X-UoD-Spam-Report: -------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned by a SpamAssassin installation on the spam checking server hughtoo at the University of Dundee. Content analysis details: (-4.7 hits, 5.0 required) 0.2 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0001] X-UoD-Scan-Signature: 4b318eb5bb8baa30a440459bb4e7bb68 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam > Is this just a local problem here, do you think? > Other people are, somehow, still able to install Cygwin these days? > Any idea how they do it? I guess posts of the style "Well, I do this" are not very welcome on the grounds of volume and non- generalisability. But since you ask: 1. I always do a full install, always using setup.exe. 2. For various reasons I do it quite often (4-6 / year) sometimes from the web, sometimes from a local directory. On three machines, one W98SE, two XP Pro SP2. 3. For a _long_ while both methods on all machines have been bomb-proof, proceeding to a successful conclusion, and moderately rapidly. Ages ago the installation was prone to hang during post-install, but this was mended. 4. Now the problem has returned, receiving huge attention on the list (with the problem located somewhere in post-install of xorg?) 5. If you try installing in two stages (i - the default Base installation, then ii - the rest) then, in my experience anyway, on three machines as described above, the whole thing goes through like a dream. 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/