setup-legacy.exe version 2.677 does not create default mount points

[Jeremy Bopp]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:00:00PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>> When using setup-legacy.exe version 2.677 to install Cygwin 1.5, the
>> installation process appears to complete successfully, but the mount
>> points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib are not created.  This leads to
>> postinstall script failing and the rest of the software being virtually
>> unusable.
> 
> setup-legacy is not intended for new installations on Windows NT class
> systems.  Sorry.

No worries. I figured as much when reading
http://www.cygwin.com/win-9x.html, so I suppose we'll have to engineer a
workaround until we can get things migrated to version 1.7 at work.
Things appear to work once the mounts are set, so a postinstall batch
file which sets the mounts using mount and then reruns the postinstall
scripts should do the trick.

Maybe the more convenient installation of 1.7 will help spur people to
get a move on.  It's almost as if that is the plan, if not simply a
happy benefit, of this shortcoming. ;-)

Thanks for your time.

-Jeremy

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