X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <455DEBAF.1000107@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:04:47 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/u': No such file or directory References: <20061117163224 DOT 83187 DOT qmail AT web56308 DOT mail DOT re3 DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20061117163224.83187.qmail@web56308.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 PoWah Wong wrote: > After clicking the Cygwin icon on my windows XP desktop, this message appeared: > > mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/u': No such file or directory > Copying skeleton files. > These files are for the user to personalise > their cygwin experience. > > These will never be overwritten. > > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > bash: cd: /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > > powah AT ROSE /etc/skel > > $ > > Somehow Cygwin depend on the network drive U is connected. > Is there a way to change the dependence from drive U to drive C? 1. Change your Windows domain user to have another "home" directory. 2. Edit your '/etc/passwd' file to point to the directory you want to be your home. 3. Recreate your '/etc/passwd' file telling it to use a different path for your home (see 'man mkpasswd' for details on switches to do this). Only (1) is transparent across all invocations of 'mkpasswd'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/