Bob McConnell <rvm <at> CBORD dot com> writes: > What this boils down to is that /bin, /doc, /etc, /lib and /usr should > be on drive D, but /home, /tmp, /var and /usr/local should be on E. (Or > should /etc also be on E?) I know that Microsoft's half-baked systems do > not have anything useful like links, either hard or soft, so this > becomes a problem. Is there any way to set Cygwin up to fit this > partition scheme?
Install cygwin to D. Create a cygwin directory on E and then use "mount" to map e:\cygwin\tmp to /tmp and so on. > In addition, I need to set up bash so that it has more reasonable home, > library and path settings. I would like to ignore all of the Microsoft > paths and substitute pure Unix styles, preferably some that match my > Slackware systems at home. That would certainly help reduce the > confusion I feel every Monday morning. Is this even possible? I assume you are talking about environment variable settings? My HOME (/home/richardson) and PATH (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin plus others) have only Unix style paths, so yes this is possible. I have paths like /cygdrive/e/WINDOWS in PATH also. I think those are necessary so that certain dll's can be found. I've never found differences in PATH to be confusing though, so maybe I misunderstand your question? Tony Richardson -- 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/
