Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <20000418164223.21224.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:42:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: New Cygwin Net Release To: DJ Delorie , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- DJ Delorie wrote: -8<- > > Then, download the setup.exe program TO A TEMPORARY DIRECTORY. > > Shut down ALL CYGWIN APPLICATIONS (including inetd, etc.). > > Then, IN A COMMAND WINDOW, use "cd" to change to that temporary > directory and type "setup.exe". > > Setup will ask you where you want your root to be. If you specify the > same directory as your current root. YOUR CURRENT ROOT WILL BE > OVERWRITTEN. There will be no recovery from this. You may want to do > backups, and unmount your old mount points, to isolate them if you are > the paranoid type. > You should also umount /usr as well if you have that mounted. Also, if you have any other subdirectory of /usr mounted you need to umount those. Setup.exe will use the existing mount table if it exists so make sure you know whats going to be overwritten. DJ, the README needs to have this warning in BOLD CAPS. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com