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Re: installing xfree
- To: <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Subject: Re: installing xfree
- From: "Frank Meier" <fmeier at ifh dot ee dot ethz dot ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:47:32 +0200
- Cc: "CygwinXfree-List" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- Reply-To: <meier at ieh dot etec dot uni-karlsruhe dot de>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2001 22:47
> An: 'meier@ieh.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de'
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> Betreff: RE: installing xfree
>
>
> You should have binmode. Are you not following mails today. It had been
$ mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive/d
$ CYGWIN=binmode; export
$ bash
$ sh Xinstall.sh
.....
$
$ XWin -screen 0 640x480x8
...
could not open default font 'fixed'
$ mount
D:\Programme\cygwind\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
D:\Programme\cygwind\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
D:\Programme\cygwind on / type system (textmode)
c: on /cygdrive/d/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d/d type user (binmode,noumount)
$ echo $CYGWIN
binmode
..so mounting d: in binary mode doesn't change anything.
After installing Cygwin on D:\Programme\cygwin-UNIX with
Unix mode, the error disappeared.
$ mount
D:\Programme\cygwin-UNIX\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
D:\Programme\cygwin-UNIX\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
D:\Programme\cygwin-UNIX on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/d/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d/d type user (binmode,noumount)
$ echo $CYGWIN
The mode of / makes the difference. Then, I installed
Cygwin on D:\Programme\cygwin-DOS with DOS mode and tried to
mount / in binary mode. This failed.
$ mount -bs D:\Programme\cygwin-DOS
mount: /: Device or resource busy
At this point, I have to face that getting Xfree86 to work
requires an installation of Cygwin in Unix mode. It is not
possible set Cygwin entirely to binary mode if the installation
was in DOS mode before.
Frank
> discussed today. The HOW TO instructions are in User's Guide.
>
> Suhaib
>
> PS: Please keep your mails to mailing list.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Meier [mailto:fmeier@ifh.ee.ethz.ch]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:35 PM
> > To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> > Subject: AW: installing xfree
> >
> > Drive d: is the home for my cygwin installation.
> >
> > $ mount
> > D:\Programme\cygwind\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
> > D:\Programme\cygwind\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
> > D:\Programme\cygwind on / type system (textmode)
> > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> > d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount)
> >
> > so the drive is in textmode. Do You have any recommendation