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Re: Problems with setup.exe - no bin directory
- From: Ellen Sluss <esluss at memphis dot edu>
- To: Ellen Sluss <esluss at memphis dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:34:22 -0600
- Subject: Re: Problems with setup.exe - no bin directory
- References: <3CAB38D6.E46E4F00@memphis.edu>
I solved the problem. Apparently there were mount points set up in the
registry for /bin and /etc and others all pointing to C:\Program
Files\Network Simplicity\ssh. Apparently when I installed OpenSsh all by
itself it created those values. I deleted them all and redid the install.
Now it works.
Ellen Sluss wrote:
> I just ran setup.exe 2.192.2.22. It did not create a bin directory. It
> created a lib, a sbin, a tmp, and a usr. They seem to be full of stuff
> but no bin. I uninstalled and reinstalled making sure nothing vital
> seemed to be skipped in particular that the base install was occurring.
> Everything seemed fine. For example all bash supporting files seem to be
> there but no bash executable.
>
> A cygwin.bat was created containing:
>
> @echo off
>
> d:
> chdir d:\cygwin\bin
>
> bash --login -i
>
> But obviously as there is no bin nothing happens.
>
> I am running this on Windows XP.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
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