Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:

> More problem 
> symptoms followed. When the boot process completed the hardware scan and 
> got to the point where the "Welcome to Windows 2000" low-resolution 
> splash screen would be taken down and the monitor resolution switched, I 
> instead got a long period of disk activity, which I took to be an 
> automatically invoked file system check (I have all NTFS systems, so I'm 
> not used to this happening and it alarmed me). There was no indication 
> of what was happening (as their ordinarily would be for a checkdsk, 
> either manually requested or automatically invoked). However, once that 
> was done, the system booted normally. Nonetheless, I don't like things 
> like this happening to my system.


Actaully, I think the long delay was the copy-on-reboot stage of the 
cygwin upgrade.  I vaguely remember something about XFree needing to 
update a LOT of in use files, so setup puts those files in the 
copy-on-reboot list.  Fonts?  Anyway, copying hundreds of files, one at 
a time, can take a while...

We should probably warn people about this; they could really scrog their 
cygwin if they interrupt the copy-on-reboot.

--Chuck