Can Not Install Font Packages

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Oct 20 01:58:00 GMT 2003


Joshua,

Try another mirror.  The mirror you downloaded from may have corrupt or 
missing font packages.  There have not been other reports of problems 
with the font packages.

Harold

Joshua Rubin wrote:

> Hi,
> I just had my hard drive with my cygwin installation die.  I am now installing cygwin on a new hard drive.  However, when doing the setup, it freezes on 5 packages:
> XFree86-f100
> XFree86-fcyr
> XFree86-fenc
> XFree86-fnts
> XFree86-fscl
> Subsequently, I can not run my X server since it can not find the fonts.  Can someone either tell me how to install these packages manually, or explain why it is failing with the cygwin setup?
> Thanks,
> Joshua
> 
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