On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Ralph Hempel <[email protected]> wrote: > Erez Zilber wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm running Win XP on VirtualBox on an Ubuntu machine. I'm trying to >> install the latest cygwin version (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe). I >> started the installation and selected 'Install from Internet'. Then, I >> expected to see a list of mirrors but it was empty. If I try the exact >> same thing from a real Windows XP machine, everything works fine. > > Two questions... > > 1. Can you ping anything on the internet off your XP under VirtualBox?
It looks like I had a configuration problem in VirtualBox. I was using NAT. Changing that seems to solve the problem. The cygwin installer is downloading the packages now. Thanks, Erez -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
