From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21358 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2002 18:13:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 21326 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2002 18:12:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp6.mindspring.com) (207.69.200.110) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2002 18:12:56 -0000 Received: from 1cust126.tnt4.sea1.da.uu.net ([63.36.222.126] helo=mchase-compaq) by smtp6.mindspring.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ycs3-0006Ad-00; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:12:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:22:00 -0000 From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows 2000 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" , cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <4.3.1.2.20020418205817.02523098@pop.ma.ultranet.com><4.3.1.2.20020419100936.02a1f840@pop.ma.ultranet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20020419100936.02a1f840@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-Id: X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01028.txt.bz2 On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:23:56 -0400 "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > At 09:45 PM 4/18/2002, Michael A Chase wrote: > >From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" > >To: "George Hester" ; > >Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 18:09 > >Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install Cygwin in Windiows > 2000 > > > Really, there's really no *magic* to setup though... > > > >There are some mount points that _must_ be created for Cygwin to work > >reliable > > > I quite disagree with this point. If it were true, it would be > impossible > to move a Cygwin executable and the DLL to a machine without a Cygwin > install and have it work. This does work in the general case, though > there are specific packages for which it won't without additional > configuration (like the mount points you mentioned, mount type, > environment > variable settings, etc). But those are limited exceptions to the rule. Those limited exceptions generate a lot of "Cygwin is broke" messages like when a version of setup failed to create the /usr/bin and /usr/lib mounts a couple months ago. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/