Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/05/15/10:24:42
I had a plain old (?) installation of cygwin B20 without any cygdrive
mounts. Now after the announcement, I just tried to setup -u cygwin.
My first surprise was that it did not install over my current cygwin;
should I have entered
"C:\Programme\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32" when I was asked for
a directory or what? It downloaded all files in C:\tmp and left them
there.
Surprise 2 was the downloaded directory structure. It includes a lot
of directories that I couldn't match to the old structure, including a
whole new ...i686... tree (I was assuming I might have to move
downloaded files into their correct place). Why this multiple forest
of bin/lib/H-i586/something-686 subtrees anyway? Well, maybe I don't
need to understand that.
Next surprise was that the downloaded cygwin1.dll, just announced, was
dated March, 2000 - much older than the latest snapshot.
And finally, if I now start a cygwin shell, I get an environment where
C:\tmp is mounted to / and nothing works as before (C:\ was /).
Help! I want my straightforward old cygwin configuration back, please.
Thomas Wolff
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