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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:16:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Nick Sabalausky cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: No /bin after installation In-Reply-To: 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 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > 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. Just a WAG: is there a "C:/cygwin/bin"? Also, is there an "HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions" key in the registry? What are its contents? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/