


20:13:43,920 - VERBOSE: note: Installation incomplete. (Cygwin, PuTTY and WinSCP) Generate a pair of 2048 bit RSA keys (With a passphrase) Disseminate the public key to all the nodes we know (or connect to) Employ Pageant and SSH-Agent to limit the need to enter that single passphrase. 20:13:43,904 - VERBOSE: download/verify error in unattended_mode: out of retries 20:13:43,904 - VERBOSE: unattended_mode is set at mbox: returning default value 20:13:43,904 - VERBOSE: mbox note: Unable to get setup from It prompts you to specify Root Directory for the install as well as whether it’ll be installed for All Users or Just You. 20:13:43,889 - VERBOSE: unattended_mode is set at mbox: returning default value If you’ve a local downloaded repository or just want to download and install Cygwin later, choose one of the other available options.

The installer is an executable named either setup-x86.exe or setup-x8664.exe, and you’ll need it to add or remove Cygwin packages in the future. 20:13:43,889 - VERBOSE: Possible corrupt mirror? Setup.ini rejected. After the Cygwin installer completes, it’s very important to keep the installer around. 20:13:43,889 - VERBOSE: mbox note: Mirror Error: Setup.ini signature from failed to verify. 20:13:43,873 - VERBOSE: unattended_mode is set at mbox: returning default value 20:13:43,873 - VERBOSE: Possible corrupt mirror? Setup.ini rejected. If you don’t have a Linux machine, consider looking at Knoppix, which will let you run Linux on your desktop without having to install a thing. 20:13:43,857 - VERBOSE: mbox note: Mirror Error: Setup.ini signature from failed to verify. Download the Minicom source files to an existing Linux machine (not a cygwin machine). 20:13:43,857 - VERBOSE: unattended_mode is set at mbox: returning default value 20:13:43,857 - VERBOSE: Possible corrupt mirror? Setup.ini rejected. 20:13:43,842 - VERBOSE: mbox note: Mirror Error: Setup.ini signature from failed to verify. 20:13:43,842 - VERBOSE: unattended_mode is set at mbox: returning default value

This will launch the cygwin setup as normal but instead of showing the usual package selection step you will find the list imported from packagelist, which you can confirm and install.0:13:43,826 - VERBOSE: mbox note: Unable to get setup from Run the "./setup-x86_64 -P `awk." command from the description at the top.Open a cygwin console as Windows admin, navigate to the cygwin install directory.just run the cygwin setup program, skip the package selection part, and finish the installation. Do a minimum installation of cygwin on the new machine as a Windows admin, i.e.Download the cygwin installer to an install directory on the new machine, copy the file packagelist from the old machine into the same directory.Do an export on the machine that already has all packages installed you want on the new machine, using the cygcheck command from the description at the top and creating the file packagelist.I finally got this to work but it took me a while to find out - by combining the initial description with tkimva's comment:
