I just had a similar experience yesterday. You can go directly to the 
mirrors.

Mirror list:
http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html

One pick:
ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/release/vim/
(Many sites under North America.)

They have binaries and sources.


Regards,

Ben Kim


On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Vocoda wrote:

>
> Yeah that's what I guessed, after 2 hours of google searching.
> Looks like Vim wasn't in the packages I originally downloaded, because
> it didn't show up when I ran setup again to install the packages from
> the d/l directory.
> A bit confusing the first time, for some reason I wrongly assumed that
> all packages should show up in the installation list.
> Finally found Vim in the install list when I downloaded the packages a
> second time. Thanks heaps.
>
> On Nov 6, 7:54쟰m, Tom Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Is this some kind of trick to fool Windozers?
>>
>> The only trick is:
>>
>>> Installing is done with the Cygwin setup.exe.
>>
>> If you want to install a cygwin package, you should select it in
>> setup.exe's package list. The package will be downloaded & installed.
>> That's all.
> >
>
>
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