Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/07/11/16:16:11
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, DJ Delorie wrote:
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/dj-setup.exe
> I'd like to unleash this on the unsuspecting public ASAP, so please
> test this version. Even if you don't need to actually upgrade, please
> test-install in a temp directory so I can get some feedback.
Ok, I'm giving it a shot on windows 98. I first moved my old cygwin dir,
and wiped all the cygwin stuff out of the registry HKCU and HKLM.
The interface looks great. Easy to understand.
I grabbed dj-setup.exe from the http server above to the directory foo.
Double-clicked on it in windows explorer. Chose "Download from Internet
to Current Directory" and "Use IE5 Settings". After downloading all the
files to foo/latest, dj-setup exited.
It would give me a nice warm feeling if it gave me feedback telling me
that the download completed successfully.
While windows explorer is still visiting directory foo, double-clicked on
dj-setup.exe. Chose "Install from Current Directory". In the next
window, the text area is empty. I had expected to get a suggested default
location, or at least a warning to use something other than C:\.
At this point, if I click on the Browse button, dj-setup crashes. But, if
I first enter anything into the text area, then there's no crash and the
"Browse for Folder" window pops up.
So, I type d:\, click Browse, play around, then cancel. Then I change D:\
to D:\cygwin and choose binary mounts. Setup does the install to the
right place. But now when I click on the Cygwin icon on my desktop, I get
the following behavior:
* I see, very briefly, what looks like should be the bash window, pop up
* It disappears before I can see what's going on.
* that's it.
The contents of D:\cygwin\cygwin.bat are:
<quote file=d:\cygwin\cygwin.bat>
@echo off
d:
chdir \cygwin
set PATH=d:/cygwin/bin;d:/cygwin/usr/bin;%PATH%
bash --login -i
</quote>
my system path is set to C:\WINDOWS;c:\windows;c:\window\COMMAND
So, I open a Dos prompt, and type the lines from cygwin.bat one-by-one.
Verify that path is as it should be before typing the last line. Then I
type it (bash --login -i). I get a dialog box about not being able to
open a dll (net something), and in my dos box I see
Creating /etc/group
BASH.EXE: /bin/mkgroup: Permission denied
followed by a bash prompt. Strange, I have an empty /etc/group file
but no /etc/passwd file.
At this point, I cat get a bash prompt by manually typing the lines from
cygwin.bat into a dos shell, but double-clicking on the cygwin icon still
exhibits the same failure I described above. The "Cmd line" for the
cygwin icon is:
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 /c d:/cygwin/cygwin.bat
I'm stumped. Feel free to ask me for more info or to test. (I'm
subscribed to the digest version of the list)
-jeff
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