Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > *THAT'S IT*. That's your problem right here. Basically, setup will not > change an existing /usr/bin mount, if there is one, and it will install > things into /usr/bin, not /bin, so all of the new apps just went to > wherever /usr/bin pointed to. Your best bet would probably be to remove > the "HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions" key altogether, remove "D:\cygwin", > and reinstall from scratch (you may also want to remove > "c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32", as it now contains the new Cygwin > executables and is probably unusable). > > > That's not good if the installer is mixing up old and new installations > > from completely different paths... > > Good point. This is debatably a bug in the installer. It *will* check > whether the root mount is different and change the others accordingly, but > it will not touch the /usr/bin and /usr/lib mounts if they point outside > of the root. Perhaps it should at least issue a warning if this is the > case (as most of the Cygwin software relies on /usr/bin = /bin). In the > meantime, perhaps the installation guide should mention that if you had an > old (really old) version of Cygwin on your machine, its mounts may confuse > setup. > Igor
Ok, I've deleted the entire "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions" registry tree, renamed "c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\" to "c:\cygnus-hidethis\cygwin-b20\", and tried to install again. But, for some reason, it *still* went ahead and created the directory "c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin", stuck the bin files in there, and pointed the "/usr/bin" registry key to that. I manually copied that bin directory to "D:/cygwin/bin" and changed the registry entry to point to that and now I can get into Cygwin and a shell. However, now the problem I have is that when I'm in that shell, I can't get to /cygdrive/c or /cygdrive/c. An ls on the root directory reveals "bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib usr var", but not "cygdrive". -- 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/