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On Wednesday 31 May 00, Chris Faylor writes: > The part about rewriting all mount points isn't quite right. Only > some of the mount points are redone. Root should be preserved unless > the user specifies otherwise. /usr/bin is mounted on the same directory > as /bin and /usr/lib is mounted on the same directory as /lib. Right. I thought I was paraphrasing the latest/README file, but looking back I see that I misunderstood it. I also didn't test Setup on an existing Cygwin installation myself, so I wasn't aware of those details. I redid that bit, see if I'm any closer now. I've added other details about mounts & stuff, have another look. The preview URL again is <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~starksb/cygwin/faq_3.html>. > Could you add a strong recommendation to use a directory like c:\cygwin as > the root rather than specifying something like c:\ ? Done. > setup can be used to install a single package via something like: > > setup bash > > setup -u bash > > will install a newer version of bash if one exists. Probably only the first > usage has to be documented. For now, are the existing pointers to your messages in the Cygwin mailing list sufficient? > You refer to "the empty directory" under "Internet installation with setup.exe". > Shouldn't that be "an empty directory"? I said "the temporary directory" meaning the one that *was* empty until setup.exe was downloaded to it. I'll want to revisit this all anyway when DJ's makes the new setup.exe available. Cheers, David
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