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: From: "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" To: "'E. S. Venkatraman'" , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: Installin CYGWIN Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:32:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" When I execute Cygwin B20 from the start menu I get a window with a single line bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! However the window does not let me type any command let alone use "mkdir -p /tmp" to create the tmp directory. I have searched all the istallation instructions and FAQs and couldn't find any answer. It is hidden somewhere. Just decide on where you want to have the Unix / directory. I choose C:\My Documents\. Then, inside a bash shell, do mount c:\mydocu~1 / Now you have /. Create other directories at leisure, or mount existing ones. Ie, I have mount c:\TEMP /tmp or simply do cd /; mkdir /tmp The one thing to mention is C:\TEMP mounted as /TEMP to make non-cygwin programs and cygwin programs cooperate. Ie Gnuplot sees C:\TEMP\foo.dat whereas Octave calls it /TEMP/foo.dat. Somewhat ugly, but works... ~> df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on c:\mydocu~1\usr 6297448 2758576 3538872 44% /usr c:\mydocu~1\home 6297448 2758576 3538872 44% /home C:\mydocu~1\bin 6297448 2758576 3538872 44% /bin c:\TEMP 6297448 2758576 3538872 44% /TEMP c:\mydocu~1 6297448 2758576 3538872 44% / -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com