Hi, When installing cygwin (1.7) on a Windows XP machine without administrator rights the root directory is ignored when extracting the cygwin packages. All packages are extracted to C:\cygwin instead.
However, in the root directory specified in the respective dialog a directory structure is created containing bin/ , etc/ , /usr , ... and so on. It seems that the root directory is not ignored completely. When installing cygwin using an administrator account this problem does NOT occur. System information: Setup-1.7.exe: version 2.6.25 Cygwin: version 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) Operating system: Windows XP SP2/SP3 Remark: This problem might be interesting as the cygwin homepage states that 'Due to internal changes it is possible to install a 1.7 release in parallel to a 1.5'. Unfortunately, when having a restricted user account the old (1.5) cygwin installation which has been placed under C:\cygwin might be broken now. Best regards, Georg Blaschke