cygwin hates my computer

ok well i have about a 1% chance of actually getting cygwin to download and install from the setup which is why i abandond hope of it before, although i had gotten it to work once, it was under dos and didnt have any of the files listed on the site so i deleted it and tried to reinstall, to no avail for at least 100 trys. Last night i tried to download it again and it worked, multiple times actually considering i had to keep deleteing it since it would somehow take up 900 MB of space (even though on properties it says its only around 400 MB big) and when it reached this point i couldnt see anything that would go into the windows recycle bin, now for the question to this veyr long rant :D is there anyway i can bypass the setup program and still get cygwin on my computer or another way besides cygwin to compile the fuss server?

First, as I said in another post, why not add a 20 Gb second disk? Most PCs have provision for more than one, the power and data cable are just hanging around inside. Bolt the disk in, make sure it is set to "slave" (not master) in the jumpers, plug in the wires, and you should be away.

However if you don't want to do that there is another Cygwin-like compiler around, Bloodshed, which I think might compile it, but am not certain. Look at:

http://www.bloodshed.net/

Their download is 13.5 Mb, which is a lot smaller than 800 Mb.

Probably the reason it "takes" 800 Mb even though the files are only 400 Mb is because of "cluster sizes". Even a 1-byte file takes up a cluster, which might be 4 Kb. Cygwin tends to have lots of small files, so they will take more disk space than the reported actual file sizes.

thanks for info on why it takes so much space, it was really annoying me, as for adding another hard disk, i honestly dont even have $20 to buy a 10gb harddisk and ship it, since i live nowhere near any electronics stores, and i will try bloodshed and see if it works thanks again :)

didnt work for me =\ maybe im just bein stupid with it, but has anyone else hd this problem, after you select what you want to install and click next it says at the top parsing ini setup.bz2 and satys stuck on that and never does anything else, and i have left it for hours on end just to see, and nothing and it doesns how its not responding and does this 99% of the time

Well, this is a link to the version that I had to get for school : http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html . I hope that one works, I dunno if that was the one your were trying.

ok well i decided to run cygwin off someone elses computer on my LAN, and i followed the directions on the "how to install cygwin" and then how to compile smaug (which was a lil different since i had downloaded smaugfuss) and did everything that was allowed to my server that was listed in there, up till tcsh startup & i tried that and tried startup & 4000 both came up with
limit: command not found
limit: command not found
port 9500 allready in use
and when i used & 4000 (like i had seen that others do) it said BASH: 4000: command not found
any idea what to do?

Take the limit command out of the startup script. It's been known to cause trouble on cygwin.

Also, the command "& 4000" doesn't really mean anything... you want to start things with the startup file.

(Edit:)

The search button is your friend, learn to use it. :)

This problem has been covered before, see for instance:
http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=3414