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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] Alternative root directory. Sort of a regression.
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On Jul 27 09:57, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/7/26 Shaddy Baddah:
> > This certainly works, but as the method requires correction of the
> > root directory post (or during) the parse of /etc/fstab, it is not
> > suitable for forcing the location of the /etc/fstab through an
> > alternate root directory.
> 
> The root directory still is in the registry, at
> HKLM/Software/Cywin/setup/rootdir (with added Wow6432Node on 64-bit
> Windows). Obviously, hacking around with that is completely
> unsupported.

that rootdir is only used by setup.exe, not by Cygwin.


Corinna

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