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Re: Setup and UNC names
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Setup and UNC names
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:39:19 -0400
- References: <20000822183727.67979.qmail@web9008.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Gunnar Norling wrote:
>Hi,
>I would like to setup cygwin on a shared file server
>without having to map it to a drive letter. When I run
>the setup program, it complains, and states that "The
>install directory must be absolute, with both a drive
>letter and leading slash". Is this really necessary?
Apparently so.
As is frequently noted here, if you don't like this behavior,
patches are gratefully accepted.
cgf
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