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

Question

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 se

Answer 1

For those who are still getting this error even with the correct installer, make sure that you're running the setup file on your local hard drive.

My problem was that I was trying to launch the executable from a mapped network drive. Copying down and running the program locally fixed the issue.