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Installing Cygwin (was Re: why not use root as root?)
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- Subject: Installing Cygwin (was Re: why not use root as root?)
- From: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:08:54 -0800
I've had beta versions of Cygwin installed. When I installed
Cygwin 1.1.x, I found that I was very confused about where the
files really were. Under Cygwin, pwd and ls use paths relative
to C:/cygwin on the boot disk. Windows uses paths based on the
root. I had multiple /bin directories which were searched by
Cygwin and Windows differently. As others have mentioned,
programs not under Cygwin (and programs run under Cygwin betas)
install in C:/bin and C:/lib, so it was not clear where the
current versions were hiding.
My solution is to allocate a partition to Cygwin. Install
Cygwin into this partition at the root. Ignore the warning
message that the setup program generates. The result is that
/ under Cygwin maps directly to G:\ (my Cygwin partition),
/bin and /lib map to G:\bin and G:\lib. There is no need to
have different paths to programs under Windows and Cygwin,
only (occasionally) to make the partition letter explicit.
My confusion level is much lower.
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Michael Eager Eager Consulting eager@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
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