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Re: question about setup
- From: "John Vincent" <jpv50 at hotmail dot com>
- To: robert dot collins at syncretize dot net, geek at burri dot to
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 11:06:53 +0000
- Subject: Re: question about setup
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I'll be trying this in the
next few days. Any problems and I'll let you
know :-))
Thanks again.
/John Vincent.
From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
To: "John Vincent" <jpv50@hotmail.com>,<geek@burri.to>
CC: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: question about setup
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:34:12 +1000
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Vincent" <jpv50@hotmail.com>
To: <geek@burri.to>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:13 PM
You've got it exactly right.
> I know this is a bit mickey-mouse, but I want to check
> I'm doing the right thing. I know people who use this
> list disaprove of any installation not done using
> setup.exe.
It's not that we disapprove, it's that we don't know the quality of
installs
done without setup.exe. Were the postinstall scripts run? Was /usr/bin
mounted? Were all the dependent packages run?
Rob
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