On Sep 29 03:11, Dave Korn wrote: > David Antliff wrote: > > Is it a simple matter of installing to a different path (e.g. > > c:\cygwin1.7), or will the 1.7 install overwrite anything (e.g. > > environment variables, registry entries) that 1.5 might require? > > It is moderately tricky. > > The standard behaviour of setup.exe is to upgrade your 1.5 installation > in-place; the side-by-side mode was only intended for beta-testing(*). > > You get precisely one chance and once chance only to make setup-1.7 perform > a parallel installation for you. The very first time you ever run it you must > select a new installation dir, and a new local package cache dir, and > successfully make it to the end of the installation run *without ever pressing > back or canceling out and restarting*.
That's a bit too much. The really important part you must get right in the first try is to enter the correct Root Directory in the "Choose Installation Directory" dialog. Due to the way Setup works, if you forgot to set the directory and press "Next" it's too late. In that case, cancel Setup and restart it. Usually that should do it, though I didn't try that for quite a long time... > (*) - The current plan I think is to withdraw the side-by-side install > facility when 1.7 leaves beta and 1.5 is officially retired No, not really. It doesn't hurt to keep it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
