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 X-Apparently-From: From: "Bobby McNulty" To: "Michael A. Chase" , "Bobby McNulty" , "David Starks-Browning" Cc: Subject: RE: Setup 2.57 woes... Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:17:55 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <006e01c0ed0b$6aa78300$6931273f@ca.boeing.com> I was having problems because I was running Windows 98 upgrade. I had to put Windows 95 back on, and then the upgrade. Someone told me to do this because Windows 98 upgrade adds files that Windows 95 does not have. I did that, and parts of the computer openned up again. I had to put in the sound card. Problem with my computer is the owner and its an old computer thar origainally ran Compaq software. I am using it for Unix and Windows programming. I love to download and compile gcc 3.0. My favorite thing right now. I go into it last summer. I have a Western Digital hard drive with 8 GB space. Windows 98, Cygwin, Microsoft Office A CD-RW drive (4*4*24) Putting in a Pioneer CD ROM drive. Hoping it works out better than the original. My system was failing because ( had a little 2.5 gig drive that was bad. It has been disabled. My mother board contains a Pentium chip. It runs at 166 MHZ. Bo MMZ. -----Original Message----- From: Michael A. Chase [mailto:mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:31 AM To: Bobby McNulty; David Starks-Browning Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup 2.57 woes... It sounds like what happened to you is a partial answer. Unless you really really know what you are doing to the Cygwin environment, you are much better off leaving /usr/bin/ -> /bin/ and /usr/lib/ -> /lib/. Unless you are running services from Cygwin or refer to some Cygwin utilities in your autoexec.bat, I wouldn't expect the change to disable your system though. -- Mac :}) Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobby McNulty" To: "Michael A. Chase" ; "David Starks-Browning" Cc: Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 07:27 Subject: RE: Setup 2.57 woes... > What will happen if I do try to seperate /usr/bin from /bin? > I tried this saturday and my computer would not start again. > Just got it back online. > > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Michael A. Chase > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:09 AM > To: David Starks-Browning > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: Setup 2.57 woes... > > The final comment in that thread from Chris was that the FAQ is still > correct. It's just that now that setup.exe honors existing mount points, > someone who 'knows what their doing' can split /usr/bin/ and /bin/. If you > mention that it is possible, you should also mention that it is strongly not > recommended. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Starks-Browning" > To: "Michael A. Chase" > Cc: > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 02:33 > Subject: Re: Setup 2.57 woes... > > > > On Friday 1 Jun 01, Michael A. Chase writes: > > > > >The FAQ describes why /bin/ and /usr/bin/ (and /lib/ and > > > > >/usr/lib/) need to point to the same directory. If you insist on > > > > >keeping them separate, you are making your installation > > > > >unsupportable. > > > > > > > > Actually setup should honor existing mounts now, fwiw. > > > > > > Perhaps that section of the FAQ could be re-written now. > > > > Thanks, I'm aware of the discrepancy, I plan to fix it. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple