On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:10:15AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Wed, 4 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On May 3 15:30, Brian Dessent wrote: >> > The problem is joe user installs "for me" and then tries to install a >> > service like sshd, cron, etc. And it naturally fails because SYSTEM >> > doesn't see any mounts. So one or more of (setup.exe, cygrunsrv, >> > /usr/bin/foo-install-script) probably needs to do more sanity checking >> > in those cases. >> >> This is a case of not enough information in the dialog, IMHO. The >> choice the user has to make at this point is quite important, right? >> Usually this begs for a dialog of its own in typical Windows installers, >> something along the lines of > >Agreed. I would also say "If you want to switch, re-run setup and change >the setting on this page" somewhere. >Also, since we're making dialogs more verbose, how about adding something >like the following to the initial welcome page: > > This is the Cygwin setup program. It can be used to perform both an > initial setup and subsequent updates, so make sure you remember where > you saved it.
I like this idea. cgf
