I know this is a lame suggestion, but I figure it can't hurt to throw it out there anyway:
Does explicitly running setup.exe as Administrator make any difference here? I wouldn't expect it to matter on Vista, but perhaps Server '08, in the name of heightened security for servers, doesn't do the automatic privilege escalation for setup programs? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/