Greetings! The cygwin installer, setup.exe, crashes when trying to install files to a directory which has been mounted to the root directory of a drive.
Setup.exe must of course look at the mounts recorded in the registry to install files in the correct places. However, when you mount a cygwin directory, such as /etc, on the root directory of a partition, like e:\, regardless of whether it's done with the command "mount e:\\ /etc", "mount e:/ /etc" or "mount e: /etc", only the drive letter and the colon (e:) is recorded in the registry. This causes setup.exe to crash when it tries to copy files (e.g. to /etc/postinstall). Manually editing the registry, adding a backslash after the colon, solves the problem. I suggest that setup.exe assume that <driveletter>: means <driveletter>:\ in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 and possibly HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2). Setup.exe demands that the cygwin root directory, which is asked for on its third screen, is absolute, i.e. begins with <driveletter>:\, so that's not a problem. Regards, Magnus Holmgren -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
