Re: problems installing cygwin on vista (fwd)

2007-10-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Ruprecht Machleidt wrote: Hi, I like to apologize for sending out the message below repeatedly. But earlier submissions of this message were rejected because of 'invalid mime type'. However, as it appears, they were not rejected, afterall (even though, I didn't get a copy). You can always ch

Re: problems installing cygwin on vista (fwd)

2007-10-27 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
Hi, I like to apologize for sending out the message below repeatedly. But earlier submissions of this message were rejected because of 'invalid mime type'. However, as it appears, they were not rejected, afterall (even though, I didn't get a copy). In any case, I did do some homework before sen

Re: problems installing cygwin on vista

2007-10-27 Thread Stephen Barclay
Ruprecht Machleidt wrote: In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP systems with no problems. However, I am encountering severe problems installing cygwin on vista. The installation process stalls quietly during the postinstall phase at /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh The only way