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: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:41:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Debbie Tropiano cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Windows 2000 gotchas? In-Reply-To: <20050927130515.GB12604@arlut.utexas.edu> Message-ID: References: <20050927130515 DOT GB12604 AT arlut DOT utexas DOT edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: > Hello - > > I've been installing Cygwin in our computing lab and while the Windows XP > installs have been fine, I've been getting some weird results on our > Windows 2000 systems. I read the FAQ, but was wondering if there are > some gotchas for Windows 2000 that I've missed. Exactly what weird results are you getting? Could we have some details here? > Some extra pertinent info: > Since it's a closed network, I downloaded the install, burned it > to CD and have been running setup.exe after copying everything to > the target system. Did you search the archives for the gotchas of installing from CD? In particular, most setup versions will not work correctly if setup.ini and the release/ directory are in the root of the CD -- put them one more directory level down. Also, there may be some path length limitations on CDs (which may be reached by some deeper release directories). > The install seems to work OK, except that on > the Windows 2000 systems only the bash icon shows up on the desktop > even when selecting for all icons Huh? Do you mean "All Users"? The only icon that's *ever* created on the desktop by setup is the "Cygwin" icon that starts bash. There is a package that creates Start Menu icons for various applications, and setup will create one for Cygwin, but the only one that goes on the desktop is the one you call "bash". Are you getting something else as well on XP? > (sometimes that query doesn't > even come up at the end of the install tho'). Hmm, this is interesting. Could you post c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full from the install that did not bring up that query? Did you get an "Installation complete" message box at the end of that install? > Since it's a lab, these are all shared systems. Generally we're > able to run startxwin.bat the first time with no problems, but the > leftover file and directory under /tmp are a problem. Please explain what "shared systems" means. Is there *one* username shared by all students, or does each student have their own username that they use to log in? If the former, I don't see why you have the problem you describe. If the latter, you can either do a "chmod 1777 /tmp" and "chmod a+rwx /tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/XWin.log" to fix this (you can do this in a custom postinstall script), or make a separate /tmp for each user (using "mount"). > I am a *NIX admin, so not highly versed in Windows (but learning > more and more everyday :-). A lot of Cygwin's problems can be solved via pure *NIX means (like that "chmod /tmp"). One gotcha is that Cygwin mounts aren't the same as Unix mounts -- read the manpage carefully. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/