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
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.
Was facing the Same issue... Run the installer in administrator mode and set the FTP/HTTP proxy to the proxy setting configured in internet explorer. Later if the download doesn't occur try different proxies. Selecting this mirror http://mirrors.kernel.org worked for me.