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From: Morgan Gangwere <0.fractalus@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBB2B49.2020203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY133-W19E57FC5270840D01116238A180@phx.gbl>

On 4/6/2010 6:34 AM, Matthijs Nescio wrote:
[snip]
> When downloading cygwin by its install program, it stalled. I tried
> again a few times. Eventually, Cygwin got installed. When I typed simple
>   commands like ls or cp, the standard answer of the shell would be
> "command not found". I could solve it by creating a file named profile
> in C:\cygwin\etc with contents

I'd assume you started with running "C:\Cygwin\Cygwin.bat"?

Out Of Curiosity, do you have the setup log from /var/log/setup.log?

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Morgan Gangwere

 >> Why?
 > Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes 
messages unreadable.
 >>> Top-Posting is evil.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-06 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-06 12:34 Matthijs Nescio
2010-04-06 12:39 ` Morgan Gangwere [this message]
2010-04-06 13:57   ` Morgan Gangwere
2010-04-06 17:36     ` Dave Korn
2010-04-06 20:46       ` Morgan Gangwere

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