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RE: Installin CYGWIN
- To: "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" <Dirk.Eddelbuettel@nesbittburns.com>, "'E. S. Venkatraman'" <venkat@biosta.mskcc.org>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: RE: Installin CYGWIN
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:56:56 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
--- "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" <Dirk.Eddelbuettel@nesbittburns.com> wrote:
>
> When I execute Cygwin B20 from the start menu
> I get a window with a single line
>
> bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
>
> However the window does not let me type any command let
> alone use
> "mkdir -p /tmp" to create the tmp directory. I have
> searched all the
> istallation instructions and FAQs and couldn't find any
> answer.
>
> It is hidden somewhere. Just decide on where you want to have the Unix /
> directory. I choose C:\My Documents\.
> Then, inside a bash shell, do
>
Yowza. The default mount point for the / is the root of the device upon which
it is resides. To correct this problem all that needs to happen is from MSDOS
do `mkdir F:\tmp'.
Besides, didn't you read the warning about spaces in path names. Not a good
idea at all.
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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