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Re: More setup 2.427 problems.


On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 23:08 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Plus, although I'd put setup.exe into a folder
> > entitled C:\cygcache and run it from there (and used
> > it as the directory to download into), another folder,
> > C:\cygwin, was created as well. It contains only 5
> > very small files in C:\cygwin\etc\setup.
> 
> Hmm, I guess that's a bug. Setup shouldn't be creating those in 
> download-only mode if the folder does not already exist. Nevertheless, they 
> are only settings cache files - their purpose should be easily 
> understandable from their names and contents.

5 to 1 odds the machine had had cygwin on it before, and there was a
mount point details in the registry.

Rob (Lurking)

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