Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/17/02:21:18
If you don't care to think about the details of setting up and running
cygwin, blow away your b-20 and the /etc/setup folder of your failed
installation, and let the latest setup.exe do its thing.
----- Original Message -----
From: <MartDowd AT aol DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: installation problem
> Sirs:
>
> I am having problems installing cygwin. I chose to download the
tar.gz files
> into a local directory (basically the latest versions of the packages
of a
> minimal development system). When I ran setup, it said there was
nothing to
> install. Setup did create C:\CYGWIN and its subdirectories, and
updated the
> registry. I extracted the files using my old cygwin-b20.
>
> I set PATH in AUTOEXEC.BAT, to include C:\CYGWIN\USR\BIN and
> C:\CYGWIN\BIN.
>
> If I type "CYGWIN" in "C:\cygwin" , I get messages
> BASH: ld: command not found
> BASH: mkdir: command not found
> BASH: cd: /home/: No such file or directory
> Then there is a colored message
> MARTIN AT ULR9I /usr/bin
> then white
> $
> If I now type "ls", I get
> BASH: ls: command not found
> Exiting, the DOS console directory is now "C:\cygwin\bin".
>
> If I type "bash" in "C:\cygnus\bin" (or anywhere), I get a white
prompt
> BASH-2.05$
> Typing "ls" yields the same result, command not found.
>
> Typing "cygcheck -s" in a DOS terminal window yields the results at
the end of
> the message. The output from "mount" is also below.
>
> Can you tell me what to do about this? Bash seems not to be finding
> the executables in "C:\cygwin\usr\bin"; but the dll seems to be
visible.
>
>
> -----------cygcheck -s output
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Sat Jun 16 20:33:35 2001
>
> Win9X Ver 4.10 build 67766222
>
> Path: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND
> /cygdrive/d/MSDEV/BIN
> /usr/bin
> /USR/BIN
> /cygdrive/d/LOCAL/BIN
> /cygdrive/d/FEM/BIN
>
> SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
> WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
>
>
> Use `-r' to scan registry
>
> a: fd N/A N/A
> c: hd FAT32 1945Mb 62% CP UN
> d: hd FAT32 5149Mb 18% CP UN
> e: cd N/A N/A
>
> C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin system binmode
> C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib system binmode
> C:\cygwin / system binmode
> c: /cygdrive/c user binmode,noumount
> d: /cygdrive/d user binmode,noumount
>
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> Not Found: cat
> Not Found: cpp (good!)
> Found: c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
> Not Found: gcc
> Not Found: gdb
> Not Found: ld
> Not Found: ls
> Not Found: make
> Not Found: sh
>
> Use -h to see help about each section
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