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On Feb 24 21:37, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Brian Dessent (Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:21:39 -0800)
> > Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > Well, I found this out the "hard" way. Was that a known fact? "Known"
> > > as in "known to the public".
> > 
> > Did you miss this text in the announcement that you're replying to?
> 
> No, it says "The main purpose of this update is to allow Cygwin to run 
> correctly on Windows 2008 Server". It does not say "Without this 
> update you won't even be able to install Cygwin on Windows 2008 
> Server."
> 
> Anyway, I installed Windows 2008 Server about one week ago and at this 
> time I had not read about a major issue preventing installation. I 
> didn't report that because I was not sure if I missed a thread about 
> this topic. Therefor I'm simply asking: was it known here before 
> yesterday that one cannot install Cygwin on Windows 2008? I'm just 
> curious.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-12/msg00441.html


Corinna

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