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From: "Nimish Pachapurkar" <nimishp AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Installation problem with Windows Server 2008
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On Dec 19, 2007 8:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Dec 19 08:18, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am experiencing problem with Cygwin installation on the latest
> > Windows Server 2008 Enterprise version RC1. I am using the latest
> > setup.exe from Cygwin home page (as of yesterday). The setup runs fine
> > during the package selection and download phase. The installation
> > "hangs" when it tries to run the first of the postinstall shell
> > scripts.
>
> Windows 2008 Server is not yet supported.
>

Thanks for the clarification. Is there a plan for supporting it in near future?

I was under the impression that server 2008 is based on Vista and
Cygwin already works on Vista. Obviously, they are sufficiently
different.

-- 
 Nimish

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