Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/04/18/15:19:38
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:42:23AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>-8<-
>>
>> Then, download the setup.exe program TO A TEMPORARY DIRECTORY.
>>
>> Shut down ALL CYGWIN APPLICATIONS (including inetd, etc.).
>>
>> Then, IN A COMMAND WINDOW, use "cd" to change to that temporary
>> directory and type "setup.exe".
>>
>> Setup will ask you where you want your root to be. If you specify the
>> same directory as your current root. YOUR CURRENT ROOT WILL BE
>> OVERWRITTEN. There will be no recovery from this. You may want to do
>> backups, and unmount your old mount points, to isolate them if you are
>> the paranoid type.
>>
>
>You should also umount /usr as well if you have that mounted. Also, if you
>have any other subdirectory of /usr mounted you need to umount those.
>Setup.exe will use the existing mount table if it exists so make sure you know
>whats going to be overwritten.
>
>DJ, the README needs to have this warning in BOLD CAPS.
A patch would be gratefully accepted.
cgf
P.S. Don't blame DJ the words in the README and in the announcment are mine...
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