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Re: Problems using cygwin on Windows 2000
- To: "Y. Herman" <yherman at earthlink dot net>,cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Problems using cygwin on Windows 2000
- From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe at larwe dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:36:41 -0400
>entire cygwin directory is the same on both machines. I tried to reinstall
>cygwin under Win2000, but I get the message that there is nothing to
>change. Can someone please give me a hint of where to go next?
Try this:
* Move your c:\cygwin directory to a safe place
* Install Cygwin in c:\cygwin (the default directory)
* Copy the contents of your backed-up cygwin over the contents of the new one
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