At 05:39 AM 8/17/2004, you wrote: >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.
Cygwin imposes no requirements on the location of the Windows installation. Whatever the problem is with this failure, it is installation specific and not endemic to Cygwin. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
