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 From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:18:27 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: just plain /gone/ (was Re: setup.exe[i] only creates directory tree) Message-ID: <20000420161827.A2308@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <200004202009.QAA02139@jaj.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <200004202009.QAA02139@jaj.com>; from pedwards@jaj.com on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:09:04PM -0400 On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:09:04PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > >I was telling setup.exe to hit the U-of-Tenn FTP site (choice 27, I thnk). >Apparently it wasn't getting through, but setup can't figure that out yet. >Ah, the joys of the bleeding edge. :-) > > >> Alternatively, you can download the tar files yourself to one directory >> and just run setup there, using the 'd' option. > >I went with this route. Downloaded every package except for byacc, ran >setup, picked 'd'. Only some of the packages got installed. Bash wasn't >one of them (cygwin.bat was most unhappy about that). Neither was gzip. Did you see "bash.tar.gz" scroll by? >So I grabbed with bootstrap.zip, unpacked it, and tried to unpack bash >myself. Truly strange things happened. Here's the cmd window; I'm in >the directory that will become the Cygwin root. > > E:\cygnus\cygwin1-1> e:\tmp\bin\gzip -dc C:\TEMP\net11\bash.tar.gz | e:\tmp\bin\tar tvf - > -rwxr-xr-x dj/games 391168 2000-01-17 21:17 bin/bash.exe > -rwxr-xr-x dj/games 3198 1999-09-13 21:56 bin/bashbug > -rw-r--r-- dj/games 198987 1999-09-13 21:56 usr/man/man1/bash.1 > -rw-r--r-- dj/games 1343 1999-09-13 21:56 usr/man/man1/bashbug.1 > >This looks good, I think. So I tell it to unpack: > > E:\cygnus\cygwin1-1>e:\tmp\bin\gzip -dc C:\TEMP\net11\bash.tar.gz | e:\tmp\bin\tar xvf - > bin/bash.exe > bin/bashbug > usr/man/man1/bash.1 > usr/man/man1/bashbug.1 > >But nothing happens: It sounds like you probably have /bin mounted explicitly. Looks like this is YA change to setup. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com