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Re: Root Problmems
- From: Andrew Markebo <andrew dot markebo at telia dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: lkindt at us dot ibm dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 20:22:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: Root Problmems
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With cygwin-xfree86, do you mean the cygwin setup.exe? You need to be
an Administrator, or power-user on the NT-system.. Yep sounds like a
bad formulation of the error.
/Andy
/ Louis Kindt <lkindt at us dot ibm dot com> wrote:
| [...]
| However, when I go to install the software, CYGWIN-XFree86 won't
| let me and gives the message "Sorry you must be root to install this
| software." There is no ROOT user on my system. I am currently
| running Windows NT. How do I get around this probelm? I am not a
| computer programer, so alot of this stuff is pretty Greek to me.
|
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