Bruce, Well, something must be going on because the name of the file is extract.exe.bz2, not extract_exe.bz2.
I don't know what to tell you about that... try a different mirror. Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bruce Olsen > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 12:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Bruce Olsen > Subject: 4.1.0 Install Error: Corrupt extract_exe.bz2 > > > I'm using Win95 and am trying to install Cygwin/XFree86. bunzip2 thinks > extract_exe.bz2 is corrupt: > > <snip> > $ bunzip2 extract_exe.bz2 > bunzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing. > Input file = extract_exe.bz2, output file = extract_exe > It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. > You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files. > <snip> > > After searching the entire cygwin-xfree archive it seems there is some > knowledge of this problem but I couldn't find a solution described > anywhere. > > Note: I used Netscape 4.7 (my company has a firewall precluding direct > FTP) and was careful to right-click to save each file. I tried using IE > 5.5 to access the mirrors but it seems unable to access any of them > through our firewall--the browser seems to hang when I access FTP sites > outside our firewall (browsing outside the firewall works fine--I use IE > all the time). > > If Netscape is incapable of downloading extract_exe.bz2, I'd appreciate > suggestions on configuring IE to fix the FTP protocol timeouts. > > Thanks a lot, > Bruce > > P.S. I note that the file documented as extract.exe.bz2 in the User's > Guide is actually named extract_exe.bz2 in /tmp > >
