RE: setup.exe creates files outside install directory

[Ben Collver <collver at peak dot org>]

On 06 November 2006 20:04, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>Umm, actually, setup doesn't write the log file until it exits, by which
>point it would have already created the Cygwin mounts.  One possibility
>that comes to mind is that setup was started with the default root
>directory, but cancelled before it actually got to install anything, and
>then re-run.

I think you guessed correctly.

My mirror stopped responding in the middle of an install, but by that
time I had already specified cygwin Root Directory.  I forget why, but I
had to start setup over again to get it to use a different mirror.

As a test, I deleted C:\cygwin, C:\bens\programs\cygwin, and all of the
Cygnus solutions registry keys.  Then I did a fresh install, and this
time around it did not create C:\cygwin.

Cheers,

Ben

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