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Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
Charles,
Wouldn't that copy-on-reboot processing wait until I logged in the first time?
Besides, XFree86/Cygwin was not running when I did the install, and
probably had not been started between the previous system reboot (something
I do daily) and the installation. Under those circumstances would there
still be this copy-on-reboot process?
Anyway, I did interrupt the process a couple of times. I even contemplated
restoring from my Retrospect crash recovery, but at the last moment, I
decided it might be something "normal" and decided to exhibit some
patience. Eventually, that proved to be the right choice.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 21:09 2002-05-09, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
>>More problem symptoms followed. When the boot process completed the
>>hardware scan and got to the point where the "Welcome to Windows 2000"
>>low-resolution splash screen would be taken down and the monitor
>>resolution switched, I instead got a long period of disk activity, which
>>I took to be an automatically invoked file system check (I have all NTFS
>>systems, so I'm not used to this happening and it alarmed me). There was
>>no indication of what was happening (as their ordinarily would be for a
>>checkdsk, either manually requested or automatically invoked). However,
>>once that was done, the system booted normally. Nonetheless, I don't like
>>things like this happening to my system.
>
>
>Actaully, I think the long delay was the copy-on-reboot stage of the
>cygwin upgrade. I vaguely remember something about XFree needing to
>update a LOT of in use files, so setup puts those files in the
>copy-on-reboot list. Fonts? Anyway, copying hundreds of files, one at a
>time, can take a while...
>
>We should probably warn people about this; they could really scrog their
>cygwin if they interrupt the copy-on-reboot.
>
>--Chuck