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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:43:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it>
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--- Sab 27/11/10, Vincent Richomme ha scritto:

> Hi,
>=20
> First I am sorry to ask this question but I would like to
> know if some cygwin developers
> could give me some advice about the way of installing a
> software at the root drive
> (ex c:\mysoftware) on Windows Vista/7 operating systems.
> Indeed normally on those systems application are installed
> inside Progam Files and
> have limited write access.
> However with cygwin you manage to install it anywhere you
> want and you have write access.
> So if you could give me some ideas it would help me a lot.
>=20
> Thanks
>=20

run setup and choose the directory you want

the default proposal is c:\cygwin

Regards
Marco




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