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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:54:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: completely fresh reinstall of cygwin?
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Andy Foster wrote:
> I originally installed cygwin on a network drive (p:\cygwin).
> 
> Due to various intermittent network problems I wanted to move the
> install it to my local c:\ (e.g. c:\cygwin) so that it is no longer
> network dependent.
> 
> Unfortunately when I tried to put a new install into c:\cygwin, the
> /usr/bin and /usr/lib directories still point to my p:\cygwin\
> install.
> 
> I tried deleting the registry keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER and
> HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE  'Software/Cygnus Solutions' and reinstalling,
> but mount still the directories pointing to p:\cygwin\


Don't go looking for solutions in the registry.  Use "mount".


> How can I get a fresh, independent install on my local c:\ ?


You can rerun "setup.exe" and _specify_the_new_Cygwin_root_.


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