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R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Vincent Richomme <forumer at smartmobili dot com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:43:37 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions
--- Sab 27/11/10, Vincent Richomme ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> First I am sorry to ask this question but I would like to
> know if some cygwin developers
> could give me some advice about the way of installing a
> software at the root drive
> (ex c:\mysoftware) on Windows Vista/7 operating systems.
> Indeed normally on those systems application are installed
> inside Progam Files and
> have limited write access.
> However with cygwin you manage to install it anywhere you
> want and you have write access.
> So if you could give me some ideas it would help me a lot.
>
> Thanks
>
run setup and choose the directory you want
the default proposal is c:\cygwin
Regards
Marco
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