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Re: No /bin after installation


On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:50:39AM +0000, Nick Sabalausky 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.
> >
> > No, you've tried "downloading" cygwin numerous times.  You apparently
> > haven't actually used the "Install from Internet" option.  Select
> > that when installing and you'll have better luck.
>
> No, I've installed numerous times.  Each time I used the "Install from
> Internet" option.  As I've said, the /etc, /lib, /usr, and /var
> directories all exist and are not empty so there are defincately some
> things that are getting installed.  And the content of those dirs cannot
> be just the downloaded files, because those were stored in a completely
> different directory well outside of my install path of D:/Cygwin.

Just a WAG: is there a "C:/cygwin/bin"?  Also, is there an
"HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions" key in the registry?  What are its
contents?
	Igor
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