Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/06/10:40:21
I installed cygwin with no trouble on my office computer (Windows 98) but on
my home computer (Windows 95) clicking on the cygwin icon leads to the
message "This program is set to run in MS-DOS mode and cannot run while
other programs are running." If I then proceed, it tries to reboot, gives
some error message that scrolls away too fast to read, and reboots again to
Windows. In any event, I don't want to kill my other Windows processes.
I have had similar problems on that computer trying to install a DOS version
of Mathematica which ran on other Windows 95 machines, so I suspect it is
something funny about the Windows configuration. This is a bad problem for
me, since one of my main motivations for using cygwin is to avoid having to
learn anything about Windows.
To install on my home computer, where I don't have a fast connection, I
burnt the installation files from my office computer to an OD, and ran setup
from that. Setup ran to completion with no error messages on screen or in
the log files.
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