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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>,
   <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
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Subject: Re: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{myname}
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:44:31 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net"
<fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in
/home/{myname}


> Extraordinary, this. Cygwin (latest version) was today installed on a
W98
> machine in a way not obviously different from many previous new
installs --
> that is, from a zip disk including just setup.exe + /contrib/* +
/latest/*
> and no setup.ini. The startup location after keying
> "\Cygwin\bin\bash --login -i" was /usr/bin/{myname} not
/home/{myname}.
>
> I agree it might be regarded as asking for trouble to install without
> setup.ini, but this pleasing starkness has always worked in the past.
> Anyway, is doing without it necessarily the cause of the problem? If
anybody
> can pinpoint what has occurred here I will be very pleased to know it.
>
> (I tried a 2nd time to install, after wiping \Cygwin\ _and_ all
mentions of
> Cyg* in the registry. Exactly the same outcome.)

Please supply the setup.log and setup.log.full from a failed run.

Thanks,
Rob


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