On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:35, Max Bowsher wrote: > Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But newbies wouldn't know to run it. 1) Link on the home page. 2) 'Help, installing cygwin fails. Run the pre-install checker from the homepage. Oh, that picked up *lots* of things, I've done what it said and it's all ok now.' Think: common control version checking for setup.exe, old registry entry detection, cygwin1.dll in %systemroot%/system[32]. > Besides, it needs to be run *before* > setup.exe - so why not just add the relevant code to setup.exe? > All the mount handling code is already there, so it should be fairly simple. The above should give a hint to my thoughts here. Also, how to discriminate between a deliberate choice of a different root and a broken/confused user. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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