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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Nick Sabalausky Subject: Re: No /bin after installation Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20040722141119 DOT GA3457 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 69.171.34.91 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; iRider 2.10.0008; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)) X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:50:39AM +0000, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >I've tried installing Cygwin numerous times with the current setup > >program (www.cygwin.com/setup.exe), and have the base packages and a > >number of the developer packages selected. But when installation > >completes, I have the /etc, /lib, /usr, and /var directories but > >there's no /bin directory. > > No, you've tried "downloading" cygwin numerous times. You apparently > haven't actually used the "Install from Internet" option. Select > that when installing and you'll have better luck. > > No, I've installed numerous times. Each time I used the "Install from Internet" option. As I've said, the /etc, /lib, /usr, and /var directories all exist and are not empty so there are defincately some things that are getting installed. And the content of those dirs cannot be just the downloaded files, because those were stored in a completely different directory well outside of my install path of D:/Cygwin. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/