Please Help

Hello

I am trying to install Cygwin, inorder to get PostgreSQL running on a Windows 2000 machine. I downloaded a Cygwin version (2.125.2.10) from www.cygwin.com . I am not sure on how to install the packages during the cygwin download. I found out that if we need to recompile the PostgreSQL source, the development package must be checked. So also the gcc complier which needs to be compile the source.
When I run setup.exe, I see 4 options in the 'Select packages to download' window:
1) Source
2) Keep
3) Skip
4) Retreive (do I have to cross the checkbox here?) OR 'the version number of the package' (do I have to cross the check box here?)

Can you tell me which option do I select to make sure that the particular package (eg: gcc/postgresql) gets installed?

Does this installation by Cygwin allow me to specify what goes where. Perhaps, you could tell me where the files will be if the Cygwin version is installed.

I have also been reading up material that talks about creating bash shell scripts to start PostgreSQL automatically in Windows. Do we need to give any extensions to this script (coz it gets a .txt extension by default when I write it in NotePad). Or does the system recognise that this is a bash shell script?

I'll be extrememly grateful if you could provide me with some detailed iformation and pointers to other informative articles on the web etc.
Thanks very much.

JonW

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