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Installing cygwin error

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cool_walking_:
Yeah, seems like people are liking VMWare more than Cygwin.  I use Linux primarily, but when on Windows I prefer Cygwin to VMWare - call me weird.

I thought of this before but didn't think it worth mentioning, and I suppose you already noticed this, but the fact that http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/setup.ini looks fine to me syntactically, and the error referred to http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/ /setup.ini ... you could be getting the 404 html page, and cygwin chokes on that.

Did you copy-paste http://download.rockbox.org/cygwin/ into the "user URL" box? If so, you might have picked up that trailing space, so cygwin is looking in the wrong place.

EDIT: err.. or not, because you don't type the "/cygwin/" part...

setup.exe pointed at download.rockbox.org is working fine for me.

speedebikes:
I did cut and paste and it's possible I picked up an extraneous char but I tried it several times and did some variations like with and without the trailing slash, so I ought to have caught a trailing space.  I did notice that the reported path looked munged.

Anyway, the VMWARE method worked well.  I'm building, editing, executing, etc. under it.  Now I'm trying to get SAMBA networking going between windows and the VMWARE image.

I still have the partial CYGWIN installation and one of these days I'll take another stab at completing it as it would seem to offer a little more flexibility although I may be perfectly satisfied with the VMWARE approach as I gain more experience with it.

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