Cygwin installer failing in Windows 95b

David A. Ferguson david.lists@apsolut.net
Fri Jul 18 13:03:00 GMT 2003


> I placed the setup.exe and the packages folder containing the ftp mirror
> files onto the C:\cyg folder of my Windows 95b machine. About 73MB of
files.

[snip]

> On this panel, it says in the title 'Select Local Package Directory'.
> But the text in here says "Select a directory where you want setup to
> store the installation files it downloads. The directory will be
> created if it does not exist."

Enter c:\cyg here.

It is a slight miss wording.  For local installations this is the directory
where the packages are.
--
David



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