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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:56:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: RE: Installin CYGWIN
To: "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" <Dirk DOT Eddelbuettel AT nesbittburns DOT com>,
"'E. S. Venkatraman'" <venkat AT biosta DOT mskcc DOT org>,
cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" <Dirk DOT Eddelbuettel AT nesbittburns DOT com> wrote:
> 
> 		 When I execute Cygwin B20 from the start menu 
> 		I get a window with a single line
> 
> 		     bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> 
> 		However the window does not let me type any command let
> alone use
> 		"mkdir -p /tmp" to create the tmp directory.  I have
> searched all the 
> 		istallation instructions and FAQs and couldn't find any
> answer.
> 
> It is hidden somewhere.  Just decide on where you want to have the Unix /
> directory. I choose C:\My Documents\. 
> Then, inside a bash shell, do 
> 

Yowza.  The default mount point for the / is the root of the device upon which
it is resides.  To correct this problem all that needs to happen is from MSDOS
do `mkdir F:\tmp'.

Besides, didn't you read the warning about spaces in path names.  Not a good
idea at all.

===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

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