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From: "Robert Campbell" <campbell AT calgary DOT paradigmgeo DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:41:05 -0600
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> SNIP SNIP
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> Thanks for the good news. It's never too late to do the right thing ;-)
>
> What I would like to see is that Cygwin installs to a virtual root that
> can be anywhere on the physical disk.
>
> I really don't want c:/usr etc on my disk, but would rather have the
> choice to do the following: install Cygwin b20.2+ to /cygwin/cygwin-b20.2
> and the installer set that to be '/'. If I want to switch to 20.1, I
> can simply change the key (via env var or registry, whichever works),
> and (and perhaps reboot or kill all running Cygwin apps) and go.
I Disagree (in part). I would like to see Cygwin installed to
/cygwin/<version>
but then have the installer create the appropriate symbolic links or mount
points to /usr,/bin,/etc et-al such that /etc is actually a (mount point or
symbolic link) to /cygwin/<version>/etc. I would also like to see the
installer automatically mount / to C:\
An extremely bad idea. I have all cygwin related stuff on D: to
provide as much separation as possible between the Win and Unix
worlds. This actually saved my a**e when I could no longer boot and
had to reformat my C: drive and reinstall NT.
--
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324
San Francisco, California 94107
U.S.A.
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