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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 10:44:38 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au
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	<Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 10 DOT 10004292349560 DOT 26945-100000 AT asyoulikeit DOT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
	(david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au)
Subject: Re: Setup v1.34 & root installation
References:  <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 10 DOT 10004292349560 DOT 26945-100000 AT asyoulikeit DOT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>


> I'm surprised nobody else has reported this - has everyone else just
> typed, e.g. "c:" and not "c:\"?  Or is my system just weird?

Make sure you have the latest setup.exe, or edit cygwin.bat to change
\\ to \ in all cases.  There were known bugs with installing into the
root of a partition.

> A second issue (maybe related to the first?) is that Setup decided to
> start downloading all of the snapshots from my mirror!

That's a bug.

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