From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: For the adventurous: cygwin/latest/newsetup Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 05:10:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000425121005.29478.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-04/msg00563.html --- Chris Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:42:31PM -0500, Jeff Jensen wrote: > >I tried using setup.exe (not newsetup.exe) for the first time on Sat (setup > >is dated 4/22 8:46 PM). I had troublesome results. Repeated installs had > >the same results. I searched the FAQ, docs, archives, etc. for some > >answers, and didn't see anything. Apologies if this is commonly answered > >issue, I couldn't find anything on it (and my wife will tell you sometimes I > >am blind when looking for things ;-). > > Please provide the version of setup that you were running, the version of > the Windows OS you're using, a copy of your mount table (which you get > by typing "mount"). > > FYI, setup prints the build date and version every time it runs. > > You were installing into a new, empty directory, right? It would also > be useful to see the results of a "ls -lR" in the directory that you > were making your "root". > You also _MUST_ run setup.exe from MSDOS. You _MUST_ not have any other Cygwin process running. Chris, does setup check for Cygwin sessions running and die on startup? ===== --- Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: < http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html > __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: < http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32/ > Mingw Home: < http://www.mingw.org/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com