On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:02:23PM +0100, Lisa Di lorenzo wrote: >I'd like to uninstall Cygwin/X from my hard drive, but can't seem to >find instructions for doing so.? How should I go about doing this? > >p.s. I'd like to uninstall it so that I can re-install it, in the >hopes of having a 'home' directory created for me the second time >around: C:\cygwin\home\ I read that this should happen if I install >Cygwin/X to the properly instructed places in the installation guide.? >Is this correct?
Reinstalling cygwin will not cause it to behave differently the second time around. If you need a home directory then just do a "mkdir /home/<yourname>" and edit /etc/passwd to reference this location, assuming it is not already doing so. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/