Got you. I don't recall if a reboot was necessary. All I remember was that the Cygwin installation didn't work. I then rebooted hoping then it would work. It didn't I BSOD'd. Now that was in Windows 2000 Professional which is doing very well now thank you. I was going to put Cygwin in Windows 2000 Server and I was going to try it without the automatic installation in the setup routine. So I asked here and have been met with many an encouraging and discouraging response. I suppose that's the Way of The World.
-- George Hester _________________________________ "Cliff Hones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 002f01c1e932$f05abe80$0101a8c0@albion">news:002f01c1e932$f05abe80$0101a8c0@albion... > > > > It wasn't setup that BSOD'd the op sys it was rebooting after the setup. > > Jeeze! And please if you want to give me the old "screw you" that doesn't > > help any. You may think my op sys is hanging on by it's IDE cable and if so > > that's your call. I cannot believe you suggested installing a Norton > > product. OMYGOD! Next thing you'll be praising the likes of WinOnCD for > > Windows 2000 or a McAfee product. > > What the blazes are you talking about? > > My suggestion was that Norton or McAfee (and the likes) may be the cause of > your (or others') problems. They have certainly been known to cause BSODs > when they are active during installs of Cygwin and of other software. > > I'm afraid that after all the mails on this subject I'm still > unclear about what your problem is. The nearest I can come to it is > that long ago you tried installing Cygwin, and your system BSOD'd when > you rebooted it. And therefore you are refusing to even countenance > using setup.exe ever again. I must have this wrong, since it is > somewhat illogical. It seems noone else has seen such behaviour, which > does suggest that it may be your system rather than Cygwin setup.exe > which is to blame, yet you seem to go ballistic at this suggestion. > > Why, incidentally, did your system need a reboot after installing > Cygwin? This is not normally necessary - Cygwin does not install > any system components. It is one of the least intrusive software > packages I know of. > > Nevertheless if you wish to install Cygwin on your server without > using setup.exe, then it is possible, and if you're prepared to > put in a little research you should be able to find out how. > What you won't find is much in the way of support on this list. > > -- Cliff > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
