Unable to setup to W7 box

Eliot Moss moss@cs.umass.edu
Fri Aug 23 13:59:57 GMT 2024


On 8/23/2024 9:28 AM, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
> 
> \\DAEMON1.DARKDRAGON.LAN\arc\cygwin\install>setup-x86_64.exe --site http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2024/01/30/231215 --only-site --no-verify --no-warn-deprecated-windows
> Starting cygwin install, version 2.932
> mbox : Cygwin is not supported on this Windows version

The message is correct.  W7 is old enough not to be supported.  You can
use the cygwin time machine to access older versions, but of course you
may be vulnerable to security exploits if you do that - but that's a
problem with W7 generally, I expect.

HTH -- EM



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