On 11/6/16, Tom P wrote: > Hi all, first time posting. > > I first installed Cygwin a few months ago on my XP SP3 machine, don't > know much about Linux but wanted to use ddrescue to image some disks > and I found it to work great! Thanks for this great solution! > > The other day I wanted to add the lsblk command, which I tried by > running setup-x86.exe again and searching for a lsblk package to add, > but after installing packages it broke Cygwin completely.
Right. The current version of cygwin doesn't support WinXP. > Now I get the following error when trying to run it: > "mintty.exe - Entry Point Not Found. The procedure entry point > CancelSynchronousIo could not be located in the dynamic link library > KERNEL32.dll" > > > Is there a way to get v2.874 of setup-x86.exe to only download the > older, XP-compatible packages? Because right now aside from the fact > the first few steps of the installer actually run, 2.874 doesn't > really work on XP either. Probably not. I don't know which would be better - trying to revert everything that was upgraded or wipe the install and start over from scratch. Either way, you need to use the cygwin time machine http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html to install/update cygwin on winXP. Regards, Lee > As a warning to anyone else running Cygwin on XP - I'm guessing my big > mistake was not noticing and leaving the default option of "Curr" > checked, which means update all parts of Cygwin to the latest version? > I should have selected "Keep", so that only the new lsblk package I > wanted would be downloaded? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
