Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > Hmm. It seems like any well-written human would not have issues like > this. > > :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Nick Sabalausky jcu.edu> writes: > > However, now the problem I have is that when I'm in that shell, > I can't get to /cygdrive/c or /cygdrive/c. An ls on the root > directory reveals "bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib > usr var", but not

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > *THAT'S IT*. That's your problem right here. Basically, setup will not > change an existing /usr/bin mount, if there is one, and it will install > things into /usr/bin, not /bin, so all of the new apps just went to > wherever /usr/bin pointed to. Your

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
zzapper tvis.co.uk> writes: > > Guestimating Possible Reasons:- > > a) You have the ghost of someother *nix emulation on your system (MKS?) > Hmm, I do have "C:\cygnus\cygwin-b20", I think it's an incomplete version, although it does still at least "sort of" work. Since I'm trying to instal

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > > Is your HD full? > > [remembering that one time when I just *couldn't* figure out why the car > wouldn't start.] > > cheers, > DaveK Good point. Before I started the installs I had 800MB free on that particular drive (not my system drive),

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > Just a WAG: is there a "C:/cygwin/bin"? Also, is there an > "HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions" key in the registry? What are its > contents? > Igor There is no "C:/cygwin/bin". There is an "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions". It contain

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:50:39AM +0000, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >I've tried installing Cygwin numerous times with the current setup > >program (www.cygwin.com/setup.exe), and have the base packages and a > >number of

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Carlo Florendo hq.astra.ph> writes: > > Oh I'm sorry for assuming you opened a terminal. I realized the error > message you mentioned comes from a windows prompt. > Did you try to invoke cygwin.bat on the directory where you installed > cygwin? > Yes. But where I'm invoking it from could

No /bin after installation

2004-07-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
I've tried installing Cygwin numerous times with the current setup program (www.cygwin.com/setup.exe), and have the base packages and a number of the developer packages selected. But when installation completes, I have the /etc, /lib, /usr, and /var directories but there's no /bin directory. B