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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:12:12 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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Subject: Re: w2k problem with new release and autoconf and with reversion to old
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 03:21:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >[...]
> >This is by design. There's a difference now between `user' mount
> >points and `system' mount points. setup.exe creates all mount
> >points as `user' mount points. For the purpose of creating
> >`system' mount points, mount.exe has a new option `-s' now.
> 
> Hmm.  Should we change this?  It is no problem to make all of the
> mounts that setup does system mounts.  It would require that you
> have administrator privileges to run cygwin, though.

How about a question in the style of:

"Do you want to make a user(U) or a workgroup(W) installation?"

The README could contain the explaination what there happens.

Just an attempt....
Corinna

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