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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:54:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: David T-G <davidtg-cygwin AT justpickone DOT org>
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Subject: Re: running setup does nothing
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, David T-G wrote:

> Hi, all --
>
> What are the minimum system requirements for setup?  I have a Win95 PC
> with 128M RAM and about 60M free on the 400M disk, and when I try to run
> either an old version of setup that I burned to CD (with the then-current
> sources) or the current setup from the "Install Cygwin NOW" link) nothing
> happens; I get an hourglass and then as soon as I move the mouse it
> changes back to a pointer.
>
> Any thoughts?  If it isn't a system requirements problem, then what do I
> need to do to debug?

David,

AFAIK, setup runs under Win95.  128M RAM shouldn't be a problem.  Disk
space might be, but setup will not use up 60M of space before it even pops
up the window, so that shouldn't matter.

Come to think of it, *does* setup show a window?  If it does, which stage
to you get to by the time an hourglass appears?  If not, please post the
output of "dir setup.exe" from the command prompt.  Does the *same*
executable run on another machine (I'm thinking binary/ascii transfer
problems)?

IIRC, Win95 was notoriously lacking tools for program monitoring and
debugging.  Perhaps someone actually using it may be able to help.
	Igor
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