Re: fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-08 Thread t s
: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fresh cygwin installation   On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM, t s wrote: > I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install > to is detailed in; > > http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg > > It's an NTFS drive with 238

Re: fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM, t s wrote: > I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install > to is detailed in; > > http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg > > It's an NTFS drive with 238 GB capacity, allocation unit size 4096 bytes. I see no problem with the params thems

fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-07 Thread t s
I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install to is detailed in; http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg It's an NTFS drive with 238 GB capacity, allocation unit size 4096 bytes. Before I make a mistake; can someone confirm this these are suitable drive parameters for a

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wote: Well, the first thing to do is check whether libintl3 is there in the downloaded packages directory. It should be in //release/gettext/libintl3, and the md5sum of it should match what's listed in the related setup.ini in /. If that's the case, no need to redownload;

RE: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 July 2007 15:12, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wrote: >> Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email >> addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested >> by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for >

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wrote: Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for justification). Dave, thanks for the hint. I'll try to

RE: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 July 2007 14:53, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > On 7/15/07, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQ

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 7/15/07, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13 July 2007 19:12, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > Now comes the weird part. I created a new file hello.c in my home dir > with vim. ls -al shows that the file exists, but "more hello.c" gives > no output at all. I just get a new shell prompt. The sa

RE: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 July 2007 19:12, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > Now comes the weird part. I created a new file hello.c in my home dir > with vim. ls -al shows that the file exists, but "more hello.c" gives > no output at all. I just get a new shell prompt. The same problem > exits when I run "gcc hello.c -o hello

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-14 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 7/14/07, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:07:15AM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote: >Bernd Bartmann wrote: > >> On 7/14/07, Stephen Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Probably a type on the OP's part but... >>> >>> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd >>> *mkgroup -l >

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:07:15AM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote: >Bernd Bartmann wrote: > >> On 7/14/07, Stephen Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Probably a type on the OP's part but... >>> >>> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd >>> *mkgroup -l > /etc/passwd >>> * >>> Shouldn't the above be mkgroup -i >

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-14 Thread René Berber
Bernd Bartmann wrote: > On 7/14/07, Stephen Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Probably a type on the OP's part but... >> >> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd >> *mkgroup -l > /etc/passwd >> * >> Shouldn't the above be mkgroup -i > /etc/groups ??? > > What do you think shall -i do? For me there is n

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-14 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 7/14/07, Stephen Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Probably a type on the OP's part but... mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd *mkgroup -l > /etc/passwd * Shouldn't the above be mkgroup -i > /etc/groups ??? What do you think shall -i do? For me there is no -i option in mkgroup: $ mkgroup -i mkgrou

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-13 Thread Stephen Barclay
Bernd Bartmann wrote: Hi, I just installed the default Cygwin components using the latest setup.exe from a local install directory. The target machine runs WinXP SP2 English with German MUI pack. The installation as local administrator via setup.exe did not show any errors. The computer is only

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-13 Thread René Berber
Bernd Bartmann wrote: [snip] > Now comes the weird part. I created a new file hello.c in my home dir > with vim. ls -al shows that the file exists, but "more hello.c" gives > no output at all. I just get a new shell prompt. This is going to sound strange but, which more are you running? There is

Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-13 Thread Bernd Bartmann
Hi, I just installed the default Cygwin components using the latest setup.exe from a local install directory. The target machine runs WinXP SP2 English with German MUI pack. The installation as local administrator via setup.exe did not show any errors. The computer is only a workgroup member and

Re: Trouble starting 'wmaker' on fresh 'cygwin' installation

2005-04-25 Thread Alan Ning
I usually use the command "startx" or "startx.sh" to start wmaker. I have your problem when I update cygwin and the overwrite my startx file. For the XWin line in the startx file, I need to take out the -multiwindow arg. #XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error & XWin -nodecoration -clipboa

Trouble starting 'wmaker' on fresh 'cygwin' installation

2005-04-25 Thread Mills, John M.
All - I just (Friday-20050423) downloaded and installed a set of Cygwin files into a freshly laundered Win2k PC. Installation went fine, but when I use 'xinit' to start 'wmaker' from my '.xinitrc' I see: 1) normal-looking startup of X11, except for some missing fonts, 2) normal-looking screen w