> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Luke Kendall
> Sent: 15 October 2004 09:20
> Luke Kendall wrote:
>
> > Anyway, the final experiment I can try now is to run
> "mount" from the
> > network install, and see it it makes Cygwin uninstallable
> again, without
> > a Wind
Luke Kendall wrote:
Anyway, the final experiment I can try now is to run "mount" from the
network install, and see it it makes Cygwin uninstallable again, without
a Windows reinstall.
Okay, after doing running the command:
mount
from the network-installed Cygwin, on the local machine the re
luke wrote:
All this happened on a PC with no OS installed until I installed W2K.
The purpose was to test Cygwin.
So the very next thing (the only thing) I did was (try to) install
Cygwin.
But thinking about it last night, there was one other difference: I
created a file c:\cyg.bat that simply set
Dave Korn replied to:
Basically, that worked. It appears that Cygwin made some change that
persisted even after deleting all the Cygwin files and registry entries.
?!?!?!? This seems highly improbable. What else _could_ there be? Maybe
something different in the environment vars between the
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke
> Sent: 14 October 2004 09:59
> > In other words, it appears to have nothing to do with
> having run "mount"
> > from a network install of Cygwin. (Since all files created
> by Cygwin
> > and all registry entries were deleted,
luke wrote:
[...]
I'll let people know how I get on. Plan: first the FS check, then
I'll try installing a stable known to work Cygwin, then I'll scrub and
reinstall W2K, then I'll give up and try another PC.
Well, since I know the MD5 checksums are correct on both our local
stable Cygwin mirror
luke wrote:
luke wrote:
At the moment, it looks like I'm going to have to scrub Windows and
re-install it.
I suppose before that, I can try installing from our stable mirror.
Perhaps the Cygwin on the mirror site is badly buggy (despite all MD5
checksums being correct).
I got the identical result
luke wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
That's what I thought. My problem was in trusting the Registry's search
command.
Actually, the search is relative to whatever key you have selected.
So, to search the whole registry you have to select the root.
Unfortunately, it's still failing.
Are there any other p
Dave Korn wrote:
>>-Original Message-
>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall
>>Sent: 12 October 2004 09:00
>
>
>>The registry contained the key
>>HKCU->Software->Cygnus Solutions->Cygwin->mounts v2-> with nothing (to
>>be precise: Name (Default), Type REG_SZ, Data (value not set)).
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall
> Sent: 12 October 2004 09:00
> The registry contained the key
> HKCU->Software->Cygnus Solutions->Cygwin->mounts v2-> with nothing (to
> be precise: Name (Default), Type REG_SZ, Data (value not set)).
>
> But deleting t
The registry contained the key
HKCU->Software->Cygnus Solutions->Cygwin->mounts v2-> with nothing (to
be precise: Name (Default), Type REG_SZ, Data (value not set)).
But deleting the Cygnus Solutions tree doesn't help.
I just tried again, except not deleting the download directory, and
this time
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