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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A76E76C.55D7E43C@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:10:20 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiann-Ming Su CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.1.7 & NT4.0 problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > > > I just installed cygwin 1.1.7 on a NT4.0 computer. I try to run cygwin.bat, > > but it just kind of hangs. The command window opens, but I don't get the > > prompt. If I wait long enough, I get bash: Invalid argument: /usr/bin/id, > > or something similar. There is no /usr/bin/id, just /bin/id. I tried copying > > id.exe to /usr/bin, but that did not help. I installed a relatively new > > version of cygwin, not 1.1.7, on a 98 computer and it works great. Thanks > > for any help. > > > > I reinstalled the latest cygwin on NT and the same thing is happening. > Please help... I need NT to be useful. > You obviously didn't use the prescribed method for installing Cygwin or you would have a /usr/bin and a /usr/lib. Please use the http://cygwin.com/setup.exe program to setup your Cygwin environment appropriately. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple