Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3A524366.3E61DA71@eagercon.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:08:54 -0800 From: Michael Eager X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Installing Cygwin (was Re: why not use root as root?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've had beta versions of Cygwin installed. When I installed Cygwin 1.1.x, I found that I was very confused about where the files really were. Under Cygwin, pwd and ls use paths relative to C:/cygwin on the boot disk. Windows uses paths based on the root. I had multiple /bin directories which were searched by Cygwin and Windows differently. As others have mentioned, programs not under Cygwin (and programs run under Cygwin betas) install in C:/bin and C:/lib, so it was not clear where the current versions were hiding. My solution is to allocate a partition to Cygwin. Install Cygwin into this partition at the root. Ignore the warning message that the setup program generates. The result is that / under Cygwin maps directly to G:\ (my Cygwin partition), /bin and /lib map to G:\bin and G:\lib. There is no need to have different paths to programs under Windows and Cygwin, only (occasionally) to make the partition letter explicit. My confusion level is much lower. -- Michael Eager Eager Consulting eager AT eagercon DOT com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple