Jarva, Cygwin/XFree86 is install completely with the Cygwin setup.exe installer. There is no need to download the Cygwin/XFree86 binaries seperately. In fact, the seperate binaries are old and probably broken by now.
You need to start over and follow the instructions on the Cygwin/XFree86 home page (the User's Guide is a little out of date, but the home page is up to date): http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ Let us know if you are successful. Harold Jarva Chow wrote: > I went through the whole download process, following the user's guide > (downloaded from setup.exe, downloaded all the required binaries) up to > the point where it wanted us to run cygwin (chapter 2), and it doesn't > work... cygwin just opens a window for half a second and then closes on > me. Help, what'd I do wrong? and how can I fix this? thanks! > > Jarva
