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.
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