Windows XP

We recommend having at least 1GB RAM and not using older Windows operating systems than XP. We suggest that you run the FEEDS evaluation suite before starting to do your own analyses.

One option for running FSL under Windows is to install Linux inside an emulator - for example, VMware works really well, and allows you to run Linux inside Windows; you can then install and run a linux version of FSL inside the Linux. Or you could setup your windows computer as dual-boot, with both Windows and Linux installed, and boot into Linux for your data analysis.

Alternatively, FSL can run natively under Windows XP once you have installed a free package called Cygwin, which is a unix-like environment running inside Windows. Programs that run under Cygwin are real native Windows programs but typically run within the unix-like directory structure that lives in C:\cygwin, which is accessible to all Windows programs. Please note that we cannot offer any support relating to the installation or running of Cygwin!

Cygwin is (normally) extremely easy to install, but unfortunately the latest Cygwin distribution is broken at present - it doesn't work correctly with the latest TCL/TK/Tix, which FSL uses for the GUIs. Therefore it is necessary, if you don't already have Cygwin installed, to install a slightly older version of Cygwin. The following steps are pretty easy - hopefully Cygwin will get fixed soon and we can revert to the easier default Cygwin installation!

You now have Cygwin installed and should have a Cygwin icon on the desktop which opens a unix-like shell where you can type commands. You are now ready to install FSL:

To customise FSL for particular ouput datatypes etc., see the page on Customising FSL.