Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:23:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide Message-ID: <20030323002342.GA22737@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030322234304.7498.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 07:15:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >> I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here: >> >> >> >> Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment. >> Thanks! > >Joshua, > >One thing wrong I see right away is the statement that for a single-user >workstation, the "Install For" option doesn't matter. This has been the >source of numerous complaints on the list when people set up Cygwin for >"Just Me" and then try installing sshd (or any services) - there are no >mount tables for LocalSystem. I would correct the first two sentenses of >that paragraph to something like: >=== > If you have enough privileges on the system, it's always better to > install for "All Users". The only reason to install for "Just Me" > is no write access to the HKLM registry key or the All Users Start > Menu. >=== >And leave the ntsec reference intact. Another tweak could be to provide a link to the README in CVS when you refer to it, a la: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/README?cvsroot=cygwin-apps&rev=2 cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/