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RE: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Thomas Chadwick'" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 08:22:25 +1000
- Subject: RE: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick
> I hate to jump into the middle of a religious argument (which this is
> turning out to be) but it seems to me that a plausible
> solution would be to
> urge the maintainers of the cygwin setup program to define a
> CYGWIN_ROOT
> environment variable for us. Cygwin setup is already putting
> stuff in the
> registry, isn't it, so why not this?
No. Use `mount -w /` in your postinstall shell script.
Rob