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 From: "Paul Garceau" Organization: New Dawn Productions To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:43:27 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Problems with root directory of cygwin Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3A7C352F.17132.118384@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010203121937.B32020@redhat.com> References: ; from axel AT itb DOT biologie DOT hu-berlin DOT de on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:08:46PM +0100 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) On 3 Feb 2001, at 12:19, the Illustrious Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:08:46PM +0100, Axel Kowald wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I just installed (with setup.exe) the latest version of cygwin on my NT > >machine. Evrything went fine except for one small problem. > > > >It seems that cygwin thinks that the directory where I installed it, > >c:\Programme\cygwin, is the root directory and not c:\. > > This is how Cygwin works. You chose the directory that is to be > considered root when you installed the product. > > Read the documentation on the mount command for info on how to set your > own mounts. > > The documentation for this is on the web site http://cygwin.com/ . The setup program talks about this during the setup process. Specifically, setup requests of the installer (you perhaps?) "which" directory you want your new /cygwin root to go in. The setup.exe app assumes the C:\"Programme Filles" (sp?) or C:\"Program Files" folder/directory unless you tell it otherwise. After the root is selected, whenever you run the cygwin desktop shortcut, what used to be C:\"Programme Filles" folder/directory selected is magically transformed (so I'm a romantic...) into "cygwin\root". Peace, Paul G. > > cgf > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple