X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:16:43 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: files missing after installation (no /etc, /bin) Message-ID: <20080715041643.GA24052@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <487BCDBB DOT 20307 AT sbcglobal DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:28:12PM -0700, Dave Latham wrote: >It worked. I thought that when I deleted the Software\Cygnus >Solutions registry entries under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and >HKEY_CURRENT_USER (after reading that FAQ item earlier) that it >removed all the registry entries, but doing both that and umount -A >cause it to work. Perhaps there were entries elsewhere in the tree. The FAQ actually tells you to type "umount -A" and that is the preferred way of removing things from the registry. >Thanks so much for the info and taking the time to respond! > >Now if I can only get sshd to work properly -- but I haven't exhausted >my non-mailing list help sources on that one yet... The biggest source of help should be the documentation in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin . cgf -- 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/