I've just expunged a working /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 and used SETUP.EXE to install XFree86 4.2.0 via setup.exe on a Windows 95 Cygwin installation.
Everything went well except that several symbolic links were missing and I had to enter the following by hand; ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults ln -s /etc/X11/fs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs ln -s /etc/X11/lbxproxy /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lbxproxy ln -s /etc/X11/proxymngr /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr ln -s /etc/X11/rstart /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rstart ln -s /etc/X11/twm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm ln -s /etc/X11/xdm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm ln -s /etc/X11/xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit ln -s /etc/X11/xserver /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver ln -s /etc/X11/xsm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm These are the directories that are more normally copied or links from Xinstall.sh as the ETCDLINKS list. Why not have either a post-install script or have the XFree86-base tar archive contain them? -- Sam Edge