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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:54:43 -0400
To: Paul Bezzam <bezzam AT astro DOT ocis DOT temple DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: 'cygdrive' Question
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At 02:15 PM 10/10/2003, Paul Bezzam you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have installed Cygwin( in C:\Cygwin) on WinXP, but when I start Cygwin,
>the directory I am in is not the "C:/Cygwin/home/username", but another
>with a path that starts with "/cygdrive."
>
>I have installed Cygwin on a Windows 2000 server, and I don't see this
>issues.
>
>Can anyone help me understand this behavior?


Your /etc/passwd is not up to date.  
See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKPASSWD>.
You probably have an out of date /etc/group file as well.  You 
should update it too.  If this doesn't make sense to you after 
reading the above and you still can't get it to work, visit
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html> before you send a follow-up
posting.  We need cygcheck information at least before someone 
can provide more specific help.



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