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RE: Moving Cygwin Install dir
- To: Ronald Landheer <info at rlsystems dot net>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: Moving Cygwin Install dir
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:39:37 -0700 (PDT)
Indeed, I simply made a copy of cygwin.bat, (cygwin_first.bat) and added the
three mount points, /, /usr/bin, /usr/lib to run first. That sets everything
up that I need, and makes the entire directory portable, as long as I run
cygwin_first.bat first.
Thank you,
Brian
--- Ronald Landheer <info@rlsystems.net> wrote:
> > Any ideas to get it back to normal?
> Yup: re-install using setup.
> Putting everything in a zip or tarball doesn't take the registry entries
> along, so they stay behind, so Cygwin is not installed.
>
> Just re-install the packages, that won't damage your data (unless you've been
> working on cygwin sources, in which it might work if you re-install and than
> unroll your tarball over the cygwin tree.
>
> Greetz!
>
> Ronald
>
>
>
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