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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:46:50 -0400
To: <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Can I install Cygwin if I have a C: drive but run Windows from H:\WINDOWS\?
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At 05:39 AM 8/17/2004, you wrote:
>Near to this office there is a machine that is partitioned to run Windows
>from its H: drive and this is its default startup mode.
>
>It has a C: drive and may even have a C:\WINDOWS\ directory, but both are
>irrelevant to daily running.
>
>Please can you remind me what Cygwin "expects" and/or "requires"?
>
>I know we can install Cygwin wherever we like (default c:\Cygwin\ but it
>could be c:\MyOS\ or g:\Cygwin\ or even, after overcoming an objection, the
>root directory g:\). But has Cygwin its own expectations of what else is
>where?
>
>In this case h:\MyOS\ was tried as the installation directory for Cygwin,
>and failed.
>
>Sorry, I wasn't there, so can't describe the nature of the failure. There
>may have been significant user confusion. But, could the failure have been
>due either to the lack of a c:\WINDOWS\ directory or the fact that the
>machine was operated from H:? (Or both.)
>
>I'm afraid that I know none of SystemDrive or SystemRoot or windir for this
>machine. I imagine they were all H:something. 


Cygwin imposes no requirements on the location of the Windows installation.
Whatever the problem is with this failure, it is installation specific and
not endemic to Cygwin.


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