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 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:51:28 -0700 (PDT) From: To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: <008b01beb901$b8678350$1605a8c0@geonexuscorp.com> (campbell AT calgary DOT paradigmgeo DOT com) Subject: Re: file-system layout in b20.2+ [Re: yikes, what are these?] Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Robert Campbell" Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:41:05 -0600 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 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:\ An extremely bad idea. I have all cygwin related stuff on D: to provide as much separation as possible between the Win and Unix worlds. This actually saved my a**e when I could no longer boot and had to reformat my C: drive and reinstall NT. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324 San Francisco, California 94107 U.S.A. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com