installing cygwin: setup.ini missing from http://mirrors.kernel.org

windows cygwin installation
mles picture mles · Mar 19, 2013 · Viewed 52.5k times · Source

I'm trying to install cygwin on a windows 2008 server. I managed to get a hold of the cygwin setup.exe version 2.721.
Since cygwin.com is down at the moment, i tried several mirrors found through the google cache of the cygwin mirrors. I ran into the same problem like this guy: Help needed installing cygwin: may be ini file problem
Like they suggested, I tried http://mirrors.kernel.org as mirror. It downloads some setup.bz files fine. Then I get the error "Unable to get setup.ini from http://mirrors.kernel.org/".
Any suggestions how to install cygwin now?

Answer

TheCloudlessSky picture TheCloudlessSky · Aug 7, 2013

I got this error when I tried to use http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and not http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe or http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe. It seems the mirrors have just recently removed support for setup.exe. The setup.exe is still available to download but none of the mirrors work.

The solution is to use either the setup-x86.exe or the setup-x86_64.exe.

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