Hello all,
learn your Windows:
C:\>mkdir cygwin
C:\>cd cygwin
C:\cygwin>touch testsubst
C:\cygwin>cd ..
C:\>dir cygwin /B
testsubst
C:\>subst X: C:\cygwin
C:\>dir X: /B
testsubst
C:\>
Install Cygwin into X:\ now and you're done. Or just use an entire
separate partition (hardisks are cheap).
Ge
linda w wrote:
> Since some fair number of people (including myself) do use the cygwin
> fs root set at C:\, and having done so over win98,me,2000 and xp I've,
> personally, never ran into any problems, I was wondering if anyone
> else *had* run into problems having Cygroot=C:\ ?
>
> I did run in
Hello linda,
I'm relatively new with Cygwin, but making progress...
Saturday, September 11, 2004, 4:48:56 PM, you wrote:
lw> I did run into a problem on a friend's system when I decided to take
lw> the more conservative approach and install cygwin in the non-root of
lw> his system -- since it wa
I have found that giving cygwin its own partition and setting / to the
root of the volume gives the best of all worlds for me.
I have also used systems with a LETTER:/cygwin and experienced no
unexpected or inconvenient behaviour.
Cheers
Don Sharp
Max Bowsher wrote:
linda w wrote:
Since some fa
linda w wrote:
Since some fair number of people (including myself) do use the cygwin
fs root set at C:\, and having done so over win98,me,2000 and xp I've,
personally, never ran into any problems, I was wondering if anyone else
*had* run into problems having Cygroot=C:\ ?
AFAIK the reasons for this
BTW -- just wanted to thank again (since I don't know that my
first thank got through) for the expandable window size in setup...I know
it's been there a while, but wanted to remention it anyway since I was
thinking about setup.
Since some fair number of people (including myself) do use the cygwin
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