Re: newbie cygwin install

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz at teknowledge dot com>]

John,

I have no idea whether this is germane to your problems, but I was 
under the impression that Service Pack 3 for Windows NT 4 does not 
provide full year 2000 compatibility. Is it possible that there is a 
date-related issue with those packages that fail to install on your 
system?

Just a shot-in-the-dark guess....

Randall Schulz
Teknowledge Corp.
Palo Alto, CA USA


At 22:27 -0400 10/21/00, John Sankey wrote:
>I must be doing something totally dumb, but I've just downloaded
>cygwin 1.1.4 setup.exe and all the binaries separately (my phone line
>isn't reliable enough to use the on-line install), run setup,
>selected local directory. Setup refuses to install a whole lot of the
>downloaded things e.g. less (so man doesn't work) and tar (so I can't
>add anything) - it just offers the choice between Skip and N/A. (But,
>they are there - the same as the ones it will install.)
>
>I have NT4SP3.  All the directories seem to be installed OK, mount
>says things are mounted, and everything setup said it would install
>seems to be where it should be.
>
>BTW, I only want a system to load and use binaries (no development),
>but when I tried to run setup with only the "user" set of binaries,
>cygwin crashed with cygwin1.dll not found...
>
>No problem with <groan>'s - if you can just get me going :)



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