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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Can I install Cygwin if I have a C: drive but run Windows from H:\WINDOWS\?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:13:07 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of fergus
> Sent: 17 August 2004 10:40

> In this case h:\MyOS\ was tried as the installation directory 
> for Cygwin,
> and failed.
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't there, so can't describe the nature of the 
> failure. There
> may have been significant user confusion. But, could the 
> failure have been
> due either to the lack of a c:\WINDOWS\ directory or the fact that the
> machine was operated from H:? (Or both.)

  Totally off-the-wall WAG: did it get installed to one drive, then
half-uninstalled by deleting the dir (but neglecting to remove the
mountpoint data in the registry), and then perhaps reinstalled to a now
non-default location which got confused by the unrelated mountpoint info?
It's always a possibility.....


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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