* From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
* To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
* Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:04:47 -0500
* Subject: Re: mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/u': No such file or directory
* References: <20061117163224.83187.qmail@web56308.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
* Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
PoWah Wong wrote:
After clicking the Cygwin icon on my windows XP desktop, this message appeared:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/u': No such file or directory
Copying skeleton files.
These files are for the user to personalise
their cygwin experience.
These will never be overwritten.
/usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory
bash: cd: /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory
powah@ROSE /etc/skel
$
Somehow Cygwin depend on the network drive U is connected.
Is there a way to change the dependence from drive U to drive C?
1. Change your Windows domain user to have another "home" directory.
2. Edit your '/etc/passwd' file to point to the directory you want
to be your home.
3. Recreate your '/etc/passwd' file telling it to use a different
path for your home (see 'man mkpasswd' for details on switches to
do this).
Only (1) is transparent across all invocations of 'mkpasswd'.
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I use Windows XP Home.
How to change Windows domain user to have another "home" directory?
I added the "HOME" and "HOMEDRIVE" environment variables by the "Control Panel", the message "/usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory" disappeared.
However, it still want to use /cygdrive/u for ssh.
$ ssh root@172.20.11.200
Could not create directory '/cygdrive/u/.ssh'.