Setup failure: mount error
luke
luke@research.canon.com.au
Fri Oct 15 00:27:00 GMT 2004
Dave Korn replied to:
>>Basically, that worked. It appears that Cygwin made some change that
>>persisted even after deleting all the Cygwin files and registry entries.
>
>
> ?!?!?!? This seems highly improbable. What else _could_ there be? Maybe
> something different in the environment vars between the two machines was
> causing it? Maybe some different software that was installed on the failing
> machine was causing dll hell or something?
>
> Ever heard of InCtrl5? Dead useful app, see if you can find a download of
> it on the web somewhere. Could be very useful if a situation like this ever
> arises again: it takes a snapshot of your entire system (files and
> registry), then you run an installer, then you run InCtrl5 again and it
> takes another snapshot and compares the two, so you can see exactly all the
> changes that an installer has made to your system.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
All this happened on a PC with no OS installed until I installed W2K.
The purpose was to test Cygwin.
So the very next thing (the only thing) I did was (try to) install
Cygwin.
But thinking about it last night, there was one other difference: I
created a file c:\cyg.bat that simply set PATH to include the directory
where I keep various helper Cygwin scripts (like the .bat to drive the
install via setup).
Perhaps that somehow got run by setup or by one of the post-install
scripts instead of some (internal) Cygwin command called "cyg"?
I can test both theories by trying to reproduce the problem.
luke
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