From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54262 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2016 15:55:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 54251 invoked by uid 89); 7 Nov 2016 15:55:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1644, H*i:sk:3RquV3u, H*i:CADU-UXHnh, upgraded X-HELO: mail-it0-f48.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f48.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f48.google.com) (209.85.214.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:55:31 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f48.google.com with SMTP id e187so102282710itc.0 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 07:55:31 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=LI30wvHlRUxGiu/z/rr1gUGhArqND6nFnlX2o3L/36M=; b=S3qyuQlCLuIC9X4Ql440lHcPl4nv1sHtSm1fiNiQW8n0jVXvykTFRpgDdwpTXICD0s cxAh9KawjLnv5FWru0vb1ukqDBhbt1RzNJswvBCx9rn/z3eN2yfgDxqH8DLoBa/XhKx3 kpjK9qzL/LDX9Q1LgCiYIMyrgrnUG5bOop2zYxYveiQ3XwGeXwQTW13ThL7NM8hrWtgz g5QYnQtjTCwyBtU5uQnMQJjmpKUt0d2PLLdJK3IaWY2zn7wN+EUENKLaboAMmL+7QT6H jZcvvTDVviUOzA267+KcDexSGtpp6tHSqWPeYLyFvzqvJg3ILNz7pN3aCu4uTl30llSh jvmw== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvdGvEN6Pwu//yBF4qB2FC/T/8BKOK2sx1KBlyfmpmehImzL6FvXQKn8Nu+hpstEPHd7Gc2KzvjyCiMY2g== X-Received: by 10.107.34.74 with SMTP id i71mr10461047ioi.24.1478534128181; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 07:55:28 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.112.140 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2016 07:55:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Lee Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin on XP-SP3 with setup-x86.exe 2.874 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 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