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Debbie Tropiano wrote:
> Larry -
> 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:15:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>>On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote:
>>
>>>It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then 
>>>install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many 
>>>of the critical file folders. We did not receive an uninstall executable 
>>>to undo the damage, so all we can do is reinstall the OS from scratch and 
>>>reconfigure all the settings on the PCs."
>>
>>I think it's fair to say that this problem report lacks enough specificity
>>to speculate with much certainty as to why someone would encounter this
>>difficulty.  ...
> 
> 
> Thanks.  I was afraid of that, but it was all the information that I was
> given and then the system was re-installed (without Cygwin).  I'll see
> if I can figure out more about what happens with the installs when I have
> time, but I'm not optimistic about it (I'm a *nix sysadmin and am trying
> to understand Windows but don't have much time to spend doing so).


Understood.  From what you described, there wasn't anything obviously
wrong with the install process used.  There's a chance that the installation
media itself is bad somehow, though I do think it's pretty remote that it
would cause the problems reported.  In any case, I think you can gather
from this that the reported results are not the expected ones from an
ordinary Cygwin (off-line) install.  If you find it is reproducible somehow,
then we're certainly interested in the details.

Good luck. :-)

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