Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Robert Campbell" To: "Cygwin AT Sourceware. Cygnus. Com" Subject: RE: file-system layout in b20.2+ [Re: yikes, what are these?] Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:41:05 -0600 Message-Id: <008b01beb901$b8678350$1605a8c0@geonexuscorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <199906171938.OAA27263@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu> Importance: Normal > SNIP SNIP > > Thanks for the good news. It's never too late to do the right thing ;-) > > What I would like to see is that Cygwin installs to a virtual root that > can be anywhere on the physical disk. > > I really don't want c:/usr etc on my disk, but would rather have the > choice to do the following: install Cygwin b20.2+ to /cygwin/cygwin-b20.2 > and the installer set that to be '/'. If I want to switch to 20.1, I > can simply change the key (via env var or registry, whichever works), > and (and perhaps reboot or kill all running Cygwin apps) and go. I Disagree (in part). I would like to see Cygwin installed to /cygwin/ but then have the installer create the appropriate symbolic links or mount points to /usr,/bin,/etc et-al such that /etc is actually a (mount point or symbolic link) to /cygwin//etc. I would also like to see the installer automatically mount / to C:\ This would provide a unix friendly envionment for compiling and installing things, as you mentioned above, but would leave / as C:\ which IMHO is a logical way of doing things. As far as changing to another version is concerned, instead of one or two registry entries to modify, you would need a number of them, but this could still be handled by a simple program, etc. Just my two cents worth. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com