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: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Mills, John M." cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How is cygwin's minimal setup-data retained in Win32? (Still have an installation problem.) In-Reply-To: <8509A0473763CE41A0A3D19A0E2C76F501A28F10@mre04.enterprise.com> Message-ID: References: <8509A0473763CE41A0A3D19A0E2C76F501A28F10@mre04.enterprise.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Mills, John M. wrote: > [snip] > I want to make a "clean" cygwin installation (using 'setup.exe') on a > Win2K box and find some information from earlier installation attempts > seems to be retained. > [snip] > 2) Started my new 'setup.exe' and found it already held some defaults > from a previous attempt, specifically: > (a) the fact I wanted to 'Download' rather than 'Install', and > (b) the identity of the mirror server I had used. The above are retained in /etc/setup/last-* (namely, last-action and last-mirror). > I suppose there may be more retained information I don't know about. There are also last-cache, which stores the cache directory, and last-connection, which stores (some) connection settings. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/