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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:52:40 +0200
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with NT Installation
In-reply-to: <20010226121417.J1296@redhat.com> (message from Christopher
	Faylor on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:14:17 -0500)
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:14:17 -0500, Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:47:09AM +0000, Harry Erwin wrote:
> >We're trying to install cygwin on an NT-based network. The 
> >installation is to the C: drive, while the students have write-access 
> >only to the H: drive, which contains their home directories. When we 
   ++++++++++++++++++++
> >kick off bash and cd to H:/, we get an indication that we're in 
> >/cygdrive/h/, but when we try a dir or ls on that, we crash hard.

I guess that they try to access /tmp which is on C: drive (check
your mount table). /tmp must be writable for many programs.

Ehud.


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