From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: New 22 Jun 1998 18:43:42 -0700 Message-ID: <19980622120054.20127.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, DarkStorm Hi Chris, Let me first say read the IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE at the end of this note. Since you have plenty of drive space, I would tend to do as you've suggested. On installation I would let it take the default for path names, changing only the drive letter if necessary. Then move things to their appropriate places. After you've moved things, I would then "cd \bin", "bash -c umount / && mount -b //d /". Replace the //d with //. You will not need to worry with mounting anything else as your necessary directories will all reside under /. I would be glad to help you privately if you need more help. ---DarkStorm wrote: > > Ok, I'm new to this, and basically discoverd the GNU-Win32 Project due to > the fact that I'm totally sick of having to duel-boot NT and Linux, since NT > is my preferred operating system. (Not to mention the wife hates Linux, > hehe) > Also, the bulk of my software is for NT/Win32 platform. > But, in order to further my networking knowledge, I started playing around > with Slakware, but would rather *not* have to bring my Web/FTP/Telnet server > down (which run on my NT server) just to boot into Linux to play around. > > I have installed the software yet and was looking for some pointers. > Should I install it to an empt partition? I have over 15 Gigs of HD space > available, and could easily clear out a 4 Gig partition to dedicate for this > software. > If so, should I install it to the root directory of the drive, like you > would a Unix-based OS? Or should I go with the default of > :\cygnus\b19 as mentioned in the FAQ? > I would rather have this system emulate as closely as possible a Unix-based > system, so I can really get a feel for it. So, for example, my native Linux > OS has the following type of DIR structure: > / > /usr > /bin > /local > /etc > etc etc etc. You get the idea. I would like this to emulate something close > to that. Which is why I ws wondering about where the installation is best to > place. > > Thanks for the time. Laters :) > > -Chris W > > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Please, research your question via the Searchable Mail Archives first. http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Searchable Mail Archives) Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://dvpraktikum.informatik.uni-koeln.de:3232/ (Cygwin32 Porting Project) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.downloadwizard.com/ak/gnu-win32/bash.html (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt (Package Porting Notes) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 (David fox - RPM packages) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 update from the Cygnus Site). Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if you're using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that comes with the tools has lots of problems that have been fixed with the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset. URL's are listed above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? 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