Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020501103253.02d33f08@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 10:37:40 -0400 To: Patrick Quinnett , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: CYGWIN ...what next ?? In-Reply-To: <84BE28E028F8D211B7A80008C7E9A1790171F951@JQEX01> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:12 AM 5/1/2002, Patrick Quinnett wrote: >I believe I have done everything that I was directed to via the >installation of CYGWIN onto my Windows2000 PC. I downloaded the >setup.exe and then executed it. I now have a Windows directory >structure that has a whole bunch of sub directories and bz2 files >in them. I cannot find an executable to start CYGWIN and cannot >find a way to un-bz2 all the files in the subs. > >Please just point me in the right direction... Apparently you chose to simply download packages. If you want to install them, rerun setup and this time choose to install from a local directory (where you downloaded the packages the last time). This will install the packages you select in this step. You could have also chosen to download and install in one step, which sounds like it would've been the less confusing option for you. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/