It would appear that you have a less-than-complete install of Cygwin. That error message tells me that you are missing one or more shell interpreters. (You can probably find out by looking at the first line of /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh.) In the past, I have found Cygwin to be adequate, although I have had trouble with it of late, especially with the 10.0.1 OUI (which is used with the more recent 9i patchsets). *My* favorite trick these days is to run Linux in a vmware virtual machine on top of Windoze. This is a *great* option these days, since vmware player is now free, and you can download pre- configured Linux VMs off the internet. If you want to go this route (with which I have been entirely happy) there are a couple "tricks" you may need to apply to your virtual machine's network configuration. (But they're not a big deal.) Let me know if you want details. ----- Original Message ----- From: A Joshi <ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:33 pm Subject: Re: ** x-windows for oracle installation > Thanks Nirmalya and Steiner for your help. > > Do I need to do any installation on UNIX server? I assume not. > When I start cygwin from my PC I get the prompt : bash-3.00$. > pwd gives : /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin > i tried startx but it gave error : command not found > /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh : bad interpreter. no such file > i tried xhost <ipofunixserver> : command not found > > Maybe > > When you install cygwin, make sure you install the xwindows > options. Then from cygwin run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh > Then type xhost ip address of your oracle server. From your > oracle server export DISPLAY=your pc address. > > Nirmalya Das <nirmalya@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > All you have to do is: > 1. open a cygwin window > 2. startx > > Quoting A Joshi : > > > Hi, > > In order to get x-windows for oracle installation, I am trying to > > use CYGWIN and it gives error : could not find xterm. Does anyone > > have experience with using CYGWIN or is there another > alternative? > > Long term we are looking to buy exceed/hummingbird but till then > I > > need an working alternative. I am connecting from a XP to a SUnos > > 2.8. Thanks for your help. > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & > more > > on new and used cars. > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l