From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13599 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2003 22:32:48 -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 13587 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2003 22:32:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 22:32:47 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8UMWlmL007482; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:32:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h8UMWlt8007479; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:32:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:00:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Ji-Wei Wu cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030930173957.00b0c940@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov> Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030930173957.00b0c940@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01872.txt.bz2 On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the > /home/$USER directory ($USER means the user name I use to log onto my > computer). The actual directory is /sygdrive/c, which means the c: drive > on my computer. What went wrong in my installation and can anyone help me? > > Thanks. At a guess, your HOME is set incorrectly in Windows. Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at . This will provide enough information to venture a better guess or to find a solution for your problem. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/