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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:19:35 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Gerald Pekmezi <gpekme1 AT lsu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: CYGWIN_ROOT Question
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Gerald Pekmezi wrote:

> Thanks in advance for helping.
> 
> I originally had Linux RH9 installed on the second partition of my primary
> (and at the time only) harddrive. I have since dedicated a secondary hard
> drive to Linux, and figured I would completely dedicate the partition to
> Cygwin (D:\). However I have begun to suspect that setting CYGWIN_ROOT to
> D:\ is not sufficient (XWin refuses to run, I don't think its an X problem,
> but if it is I guess this post will be moved).
> My question is whether there is a quick fix to this or whether it is more
> trouble than it is worth.


Hm.  Now that's a good one.  Perhaps my memory is failing me but in all
the years I've been using Cygwin, I don't ever recall CYGWIN_ROOT being
officially used.  Perhaps you should back up and start over with:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

and

<http://cygwin.com/lists.html>




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