On Sep 29 08:41, Dave Korn wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Sep 29 03:11, Dave Korn wrote: > > >> You get precisely one chance and once chance only to make setup-1.7 > >> perform > >> a parallel installation for you. The very first time you ever run it you > >> must > >> select a new installation dir, and a new local package cache dir, and > >> successfully make it to the end of the installation run *without ever > >> pressing > >> back or canceling out and restarting*. > > > > That's a bit too much. The really important part you must get right in > > the first try is to enter the correct Root Directory in the "Choose > > Installation Directory" dialog. Due to the way Setup works, if you > > forgot to set the directory and press "Next" it's too late. In that > > case, cancel Setup and restart it. Usually that should do it, though > > I didn't try that for quite a long time... > > Ah, I had a horribly frustrating time trying to get it to not upgrade one of > my installations once after I had accidentally gone as far as the chooser > page, and got a bit cargo-culty when setup seemed to still know about my 1.5 > installation despite having done everything I could think of to hide it, so my > advice erred on the side of ludicrously over-cautious.
That's proably better anyway. I just didn't want to put off people from trying. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
