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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:29:44 -0400
To: "Latham, Justin" <justin DOT latham AT baesystems DOT com>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup changes paths
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At 03:18 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote:
>My work pc is set up so that the c drive is too small for anything useful
>and all applications go on the d drive.  The standard build of the pc is set
>up with Cygwin already installed.  My issue is that the standard build
>doesn't have some components I need.  
>
>However, setup.exe always installs updates to c:\cygwin, regardless of what
>I specify in the installer GUI.  Future executions of the GUI indicate that
>these components are installed, but they won't run (give "can not find dll"
>errors, etc...).  My registry paths BEFORE running setup all point to /,
>/usr/lib, and /usr/bin being on the d: drive in the correct place.  My
>registry paths AFTER running setup have moved /usr/lib and /usr/bin to
>c:\cygwin.  How do I keep the damn thing from installing to the wrong place?
>Just moving my cygwin install to c:\cygwin is not an option...


Can't say.  It works for me (and always has).  Perhaps looking at 
/var/log/setup.log.full would be helpful.


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