How do I delete old cygwin directories on W2K?

2004-07-30 Thread Don V Black
Hi Again - I have a couple of backup CYGWIN directories on my hard drive that I cannot remove even when I logon as Administrator. I had a disk crash and was forced to restore the W2K system onto a new harddrive. I used the old drive (120GB) as a data disk. The old drive contains the old CYGWIN

Re: How do I delete old cygwin directories on W2K?

2004-07-30 Thread Alexey N. Solofnenko
I think Linux will not honour Windows permissions, so you can try mounting the partition in Linux. - Alexey. Don V Black wrote: Hi Again - I have a couple of backup CYGWIN directories on my hard drive that I cannot remove even when I logon as Administrator. I had a disk crash and was forced to

Re: How do I delete old cygwin directories on W2K?

2004-07-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:28:23AM -0700, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: I think Linux will not honour Windows permissions, so you can try mounting the partition in Linux. That's one option. If that doesn't work, you'll probably get more opinions in the main cygwin list. This really is not

Re: How do I delete old cygwin directories on W2K?

2004-07-30 Thread Don V Black
Good idea, except that my dual boot version of RH Linux on that machine does not support the NTFS file structure that is on the 120GB HD. Can the person who wrote the CYGWIN install utility answer this question? - Don At 09:28 AM 7/30/2004 -0700, you wrote: I think Linux will not honour Windows

Re: How do I delete old cygwin directories on W2K?

2004-07-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:06:42PM -0700, Don V Black wrote: Can the person who wrote the CYGWIN install utility answer this question? Probably not. cgf