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Re: prelim FAQ update: Installation Instructions
- To: starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk
- Subject: Re: prelim FAQ update: Installation Instructions
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:03:09 -0400
- CC: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <451-Thu01Jun2000024714+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk><20000531231335.D31958@cygnus.com><200006010340.XAA17277@envy.delorie.com> <8631-Thu01Jun2000164129+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
> Good idea. While I was playing around with setup on a test machine,
> trying different things, I found that Setup would provide C:\ as a
> default root under certain circumstances, generally when the
> previous Setup attempt was aborted (^C). It looked like registry
> entries were created, but perhaps not populated correctly. This
> scenario might be confusing to a new user. Can Setup avoid it
> somehow? (This was Win98, BTW.)
The mount changes will be the very last thing it does, so that
particular problem shouldn't happen any more.