Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/20/04:55:47
On Aug 20 00:34, Mike Miller wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I'm new to the list. I would love to get Cygwin running on my Windows XP
> x64 system. I found some recent messages from this list and they helped
> enough that I got Cygwin up, but there were errors in the installation
> such that I am missing many important things like ls and mv! But most
> other things seem to be there. The install stuck repeatedly on
> sysvinit.sh and on xinetd.sh, so I renamed those scripts and skipped them.
>
> What I'd really like to see is some instructions on how I can get Cygwin
> running on XP x64. Are such instructions planned, or will a new version
> of the installer just work with XP x64? I used the 8/19 versions of the
> snapshots of cygwin1-20050819.dll.bz2 and cygwin-inst-20050819.tar.bz2,
> but I might not have used them correctly (I just overwrote old files with
> new ones midway through the install).
It should work OOTB, at least it did for me. Just don't interfere
while it's doing its job. Afterwards, simply copy the latest snapshot
DLL over the original one and you should be all set. Maybe you should
remove all traces of Cygwin from your disk and start over.
Corinna
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Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat, Inc.
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