Near to this office there is a machine that is partitioned to run Windows from its H: drive and this is its default startup mode.
It has a C: drive and may even have a C:\WINDOWS\ directory, but both are irrelevant to daily running. Please can you remind me what Cygwin "expects" and/or "requires"? I know we can install Cygwin wherever we like (default c:\Cygwin\ but it could be c:\MyOS\ or g:\Cygwin\ or even, after overcoming an objection, the root directory g:\). But has Cygwin its own expectations of what else is where? In this case h:\MyOS\ was tried as the installation directory for Cygwin, and failed. Sorry, I wasn't there, so can't describe the nature of the failure. There may have been significant user confusion. But, could the failure have been due either to the lack of a c:\WINDOWS\ directory or the fact that the machine was operated from H:? (Or both.) I'm afraid that I know none of SystemDrive or SystemRoot or windir for this machine. I imagine they were all H:something. Thanks. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
