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Date: | Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:30:48 -0400 |
From: | Ken Jackson <cygwin AT jackson DOT io> |
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Subject: | Re: setup-1.7.exe can't use I:\ for Local Package Directory |
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Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 02:22:34PM -0400, Ken Jackson wrote: > >I had great difficulties installing 1.7 on Windows XP home edition > >running in VirtualBox as I described here: > ><http://cygwinusers.org/index.php?topic=10.msg20> > > I'm just going to go on record and say that I'm not going to spend > any time investigating problems reported to some random other web > site even if the web site has the name "cygwin" in it. > > YMMV. > > cgf Hi Christopher, I just couldn't believe there wasn't a thriving active forum for Cygwin users, when there is a such crying need. I begged and pleaded all over the place for *someone* to create a Cygwin forum *somewhere*, and finally Norv stepped up to answer the need. This email list is very good, but it has so much traffic that I can only stand to be on it for a few days before I jump off it again. But I need to use cygwin for my sanity at work, so I naturally have the occasional problem for which I want a solution. And I enjoy sharing an occasional solution. Forums are *much* better than email lists. You can come and go easily. The archives and the active messages are right there in one place. Email addresses aren't as easily harvested by evil. You can add FAQs and tutorials that are more readily associated with the posts than on a site separate from a list. The format is common and pleasing. etc. I really hope cygwinusers.org will be helpful to others. But in this case, I was merely referencing what I already wrote. BTW, I really appreciate the tireless effort that you and your colleagues pour into Cygwin. Life would be Windows yech without it. -Ken Jackson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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