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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/