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Re: Windows 2008 64-bit install


On 2/2/2011 3:11 PM, Bryan Slatner wrote:
> Thorsten Kampe <thorsten <at> thorstenkampe.de> writes:
> 
>> I'd just delete everything and do a fresh minimal installation. If this 
>> fails again, you can continue here. First check 
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
> 
> I'll do my best, but my order of operations when I got the failure was:
> 
> 1) Spin up a brand new EC2 Windows 2008 64-bit instance
> 2) Log in
> 3) Install Cygwin
> 
> I literally did nothing else. So, if there is some dodgy software causing an
> issue, I may not have the luxury of uninstalling it.
> 
> I haven't tried it myself, but I am told the same does NOT happen on a 32-bit
> W2K8 instance.

Could this be related to this earlier thread?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00212.html

-Jeremy

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