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Re: Re: Bash file doesn't appear


On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:30:06PM -0800, Skews Me wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Skews Me wrote:
>
>> I've installed Cygwin twice from two different mirrors, but the bash
>file
>> is nowhere to be found.
>>
>You mean /bin/bash.exe?  What is "the bash file"?
>
>-----------------------------
>Version: 1.5.5-1
>
>No executables were installed on either of my hard drives.  The c:\cygwin
>folder that was created contains an .\etc\setup folder with a few
>temporary files, but that's it.  There's no /bin folder, no bash.exe,
>nothing.  Could it be that my Windows logon name contains a space or that
>I downloaded to a hard drive other than c:?

It's because you chose the "download" option rather than the "install"
option when you ran setup.exe.

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