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From: Gary Morrison <gary DOT morrison AT freescale DOT com>
Subject:  Can't Seem to Make a Non-Incremental Installation of Cygwin
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:04:59 +0000 (UTC)
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I'm attempting to install Cygwin on a (rather wimpy - slow CPU & not much disk 
space) PC, and I keep running into a problem:

In short, somebody installed it on this machine earlier, and didn't do that 
installation quite right.  So, I decided to delete everything on the disk I 
could find relating to Cygwin, and reinstall it from scratch.   

However, best I can tell, the installation script appears to be looking at some 
sort of installation log file (somewhere!) to decide what to install and 
upgrade, rather than referencing the files actually present or not on the 
disk.  Again, best I can tell, because a long time ago all of the relevant 
files were in fact installed, it appears to be concluding that nothing needs to 
be installed, even though I've deleted all of those files since then.

Is there any way to tell it stop trying to do an incremental installation any 
add or replace all files?

Thanks for the help, folks!


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