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Subject: RE: a standard place to get cygwin
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:35:13 -0500
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> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> > I suspect the problem isn't with the mirror.  You mention a previous
> > installation of Cygwin -- perhaps you have stale mounts?
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Green, Keith wrote:
> 
> > > Sounds to me, though, like you have an errant Cygwin 
> install hanging
> > > around.  First thing to do is follow this FAQ:
> > >
> > > How do I uninstall all of Cygwin?
> > > <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC20>
> >
> > I was skeptical, but that was it!
> 
> Ah, so it *was* the problem of stale mounts...
> 	Igor

Yes, though I'm not sure what a stale mount means in a registry context.
It didn't click for me when I was deleting registry entries, but it does
now that you mention it again, that all those "mount" entries under Cygwin
Solutions was probably what you were talking about.

Thanks,
k



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