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: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com> To: Subject: RE: sundry & using rootfs as cygwin-root Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:56:43 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" In-Reply-To: <41438EE8.7040708@tlinx.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i8CKvhlf018772 linda w wrote: > Since some fair number of people (including myself) do use the cygwin > fs root set at C:\, and having done so over win98,me,2000 and xp I've, > personally, never ran into any problems, I was wondering if anyone > else *had* run into problems having Cygroot=C:\ ? > > I did run into a problem on a friend's system when I decided to take > the more conservative approach and install cygwin in the non-root of > his system -- since it wasn't my sys and didn't want to go against > the "suggestion" of the cygwin installer...but in using his system > after that, not having the two roots be synonomous has been nothing > but a pain. find commands, locate and such that used to work from > root now no longer work as expected. I can't access the whole system > the way I was used to...it's more like cygwin is installed into a > separate little compartment over to the side, > whereas when > I install it in root, I am more often using it as a OS adjunct/layer, > as, I _think_, many people are. $ mount -c "/" $ ls /c $ mount -c /cygdrive $ ls /cygdrive/c I believe this is just what you want, isn't it? > So I was wondering -- is that warning really _necessary_? and if it > is, maybe it is only necessary when creating a new install and not > running an update on an existing install each time? > > Just a minor idea... > -linda Someone else said exactly what I think too... there is a load of files in C:\ already. Why do you wish to expand the garbage bin? There are enough of garbage bins on a windows machine IMO. I've gone even further, I don't want the cygwin dir to be visible in the root of C:\ - As cygwin is just another piece of software, it should go where the others go. i.e. "Program Files" - for a Swedish Windows version this ends up be: $ cygpath -m / C:/Program/Cygwin WFM, really nice too. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems --72--> ** mailing list preference; please keep replies on list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/