Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030328212912.02cdbd88@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:32:50 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi, You wrote "vmtools" and "vmware." Is that or ? Both? Something else? It's really just idle curiosity. I had never heard of vmtools before, so I had to go look it up (it's Java XML stuff) and so it doesn't sound related, but I just thought I'd check. Randall Schulz At 20:50 2003-03-28, you wrote: >>I'd say there is something wrong with your system/installation of Windows... > >Could be. But, it is a clean win98 install, then I installed >vmtools, then I've run cygwin setup (the experimental one), >three times, and only done really minor things in the >cygwin terminal ("mkdir", "touch", "ls -l", "cd"). > >Oh, and I ran IE to go and get the experimental setup. > >Probably now I redo the same test with the non-experimental >setup, and see what happens. > > >>VM as in running Windows on top of say Mac OS/Linux? > >Actually on top of Win2000. (Using vmware. It is the >only way I have time to test stuff on virgin machines.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/