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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:03:09 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk
CC: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <8631-Thu01Jun2000164129+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> (message from
David Starks-Browning on Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:41:29 +0100)
Subject: Re: prelim FAQ update: Installation Instructions
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<20000531231335 DOT D31958 AT cygnus DOT com>
<200006010340 DOT XAA17277 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <8631-Thu01Jun2000164129+0100-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>

> Good idea.  While I was playing around with setup on a test machine,
> trying different things, I found that Setup would provide C:\ as a
> default root under certain circumstances, generally when the
> previous Setup attempt was aborted (^C).  It looked like registry
> entries were created, but perhaps not populated correctly.  This
> scenario might be confusing to a new user.  Can Setup avoid it
> somehow?  (This was Win98, BTW.)

The mount changes will be the very last thing it does, so that
particular problem shouldn't happen any more.

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