Re: I donwload all X11 packages, it still not can not startx

2010-01-04 Thread rmpbklyn
1) to isolate where the error comes from, manually start xwin try the following : a) open the bash shell, if not sure check the properties of the shortcut that on desktop or cygwin folder in start menu execute the bash.exe from windows explorer as with any program exe file b) type '

Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Because I install Cygwin on multiple systems, I initially run setup.exe under wine (fedora 11) to download the files into a Samba-accessible directory (Distribution/Cygwin/ on Cambridge), into which I also place setup.exe. On a Vista system (I haven't tried to reproduce on XP), I then run

Re: Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe

2010-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:06:28PM -0800, Paul Loewenstein wrote: Because I install Cygwin on multiple systems, I initially run setup.exe under wine (fedora 11) to download the files into a Samba-accessible directory (Distribution/Cygwin/ on Cambridge), into which I also place setup.exe. On a