Brand new Cygwin install on a Vista (Home Premium) machine

glacken reglacken@yahoo.com
Sat Nov 1 00:03:00 GMT 2008




Karl M-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All...
> 
> I just did a fresh install of the current Cygwin 1.5 on a Vista Home
> Premium machine.
> 
> There were only a couple bumps. For OpenSSH, the ssh-host-config had to be
> run
> multiple times...it first bailed out because of the protection of the
> passwd and group
> files...next because of the protection of /var. I think it would be good
> to have it offer
> to fix these. I can submit a patch if desired.
> 
> The second issue was with vim from a cmd console window. When I run vim,
> the
> arrow keys work fine until I enter insert mode...then the arrow keys alter
> the test
> and take me out of insert mode. I've not seen this before and some
> Googling didn't
> help. Any thoughts?
> 
> Otherwise, it was a great experience. I used the latest setup.exe snapshot
> and it
> worked very well.
> 
> Thanks to all,
> 
> ...Karl
> 
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