Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:39:19 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Setup and UNC names Message-ID: <20000822143919.C29889@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000822183727.67979.qmail@web9008.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20000822183727.67979.qmail@web9008.mail.yahoo.com>; from norlingg@yahoo.se on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:37:27PM +0200 On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Gunnar Norling wrote: >Hi, >I would like to setup cygwin on a shared file server >without having to map it to a drive letter. When I run >the setup program, it complains, and states that "The >install directory must be absolute, with both a drive >letter and leading slash". Is this really necessary? Apparently so. As is frequently noted here, if you don't like this behavior, patches are gratefully accepted. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com