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 From: "Dave Korn" To: 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Aug 2004 18:13:07.0656 (UTC) FILETIME=[033E9480:01C4854F] > -----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 -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/