Re: No /bin after installation

[zzapper <david at tvis dot co dot uk>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:50:39 +0000 (UTC),  wrote:

>I've tried installing Cygwin numerous times with
> the current setup program (www.cygwin.com/setup.exe),
> and have the base packages and a number of the
> developer packages selected. But when installation
> completes, I have the /etc, /lib, /usr, and /var 
>directories but there's no /bin directory.
>Because of this, when I try to run Cygwin, I get
> the error "The system cannot find the path specified.
> 'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command, operable program, or batch file."
>
Guestimating Possible Reasons:-

a) You have the ghost of someother *nix emulation on your system (MKS?)

b) You have a \bin directory somewhere in you Windows Paths

c) Have you tried installing to C:\ rather than d:\

>From a nul expert


zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
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