Installing Cygwin

I did this with the current stable version of Cygwin (1.5.x). I installed only a minimal number of packages, including Python and gcc, but *not* including Mercurial (since the version in Cygwin is old).

Once Cygwin was installed, I created users and groups:

    mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
    mkpasswd -d -u user1 >> /etc/passwd
    mkpasswd -d -u user2 >> /etc/passwd
    mkgroup -l > /etc/group

Then created home directories:

    cd /
    mkdir /home
    
    cd /home
    ln -s /c/ken user1
    
    mkdir user2
    chown user2 user2

I also installed a minimal profile and kshrc for myself. The only thing unusual in the profile was that I learned about this pdksh option:

    set -o vi-tabcomplete

It configures shell autocompletion using tab in addition to the usual <ESC>-\ combination.