Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000301182458.10355.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:24:58 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: RE: Setup over a previous installation To: "Parker, Ron" , cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Cc: "'cgf AT cygnus DOT com'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Parker, Ron" wrote: > On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 at 9:21 PM, Chris Faylor wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:23:27PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote: > > >I may try reading the registry to see what the previous root directory > was > > >and attempt to install to that directory. > > > Can you just run "mount" instead? I'd like to make the installer as > blissfully > > unaware of cygwin internals as possible. > > > I do agree that it is a good idea to find the existing mount and possibly > offer > > that as an option for the install. > > > cgf > > Sure. I'll just add mount to the files that are packaged in setup.exe and I > will parse its output. Of course this places some dependence upon the output > of mount remaining the same. I only mention this because I have seen minor > changes in it in the past. > Hmm... WAIT A MINUTE, mount.exe requires cygwin1.dll which isn't installed yet. If you store cygwin1.dll in c:\temp then cygwin1.dll will do an automount for / to point to c:/temp. I don't think this is what you want. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: (Coming Soon) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com