Install R12 on Windows XP
Installation steps
Set Computer name & Domain name
Install microsoft Loopback adapter & define IP(10.10.10.10)
click network adapter ,Click Microsoft Loopback Adapter & click next
Add new entry in the C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
IP address ---hostname.domainname.com
10.10.10.10 hostname.domainname.com
Ping hostname
Ping domainname
Install Visual C++8.0
Download cygwin
Archive -default plus Zip package
Base - select ash,coreutils, diffutils, findutils, gawk,grep,sed,tar & which
Devel - binutils,gcc,gcc-core,gcc-g++,make & mktemp
Doc - cygwin-doc & man
Editors-Select vim
Interpreters - gawk
Shells- ash & tcsh
Utils - cygutils & file