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 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:15:05 EST To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup: 'Download From Internet' creates 'c:/cygwin/etc/setup' Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20041216151525.GA1084@home> References: <20041216151525 DOT GA1084 AT home> From: Brian Keener Reply-To: Brian Keener George wrote: > Internet Option'. Files were saved to the root of a currently empty D:/ > partition. > > Ordinarily I'd just delete the 'c:/cygwin/etc/setup' dirs and files as > they seem to contain summmary download-specific information, but I'm > wondering why this folder was created where it was. Maybe if I had > selected 'Install from Internet' and picked 'c:/cygwin' (on this > machine) for the installation directory (neither of which is the case), > it might make more sense. Since you selected Download only then setup bypassed the question for the Root Directory for the install but defaulted to C:\cygwin and as you point out the C:\cygwin\etc\setup directory has summary download and log information for the install. It would normally place it whereever you installed Cygwin but since this was a download only - it had to assume where that might be. I remember seeing this before and wondered where else we might place these setup files when it is a download only - at one time I beleive these were actually kept as part of the download directory and then later moved to /etc/setup but I am not 100% on that. bk -- 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/