Thak you so much, Igor. That problem is resolved, thanks to your help. What really brings a smile to my face, though, is your e-mail address. See, I'm a first-semester sophmore in NYU, and for some reason I find great irony in that the person who helped me with this problem was another NYU student.
Andrew P.S. The reason I wanted XWindows is to make the configuration for uClinux easier. I'm working on an embedded project, you see. So now, I'm gonna bounce from the errors with Cygwin back to errors with uClinux. Once again, thanks a lot. -----Original Message----- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More on my problem with installing XFree86 on Win2000 On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Chizhik, Andrew wrote: > After some digging around and manual unzipping and untaring, I've narrowed > down my installation problem to this: I can't make a directory named "fonts" > in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, which is where it would be put by the installer. The > funny thing is that if I were to call it "font", it works just fine. When I > try to mkdir, I get the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 > $ ls > XErrorDB app-defaults fs proxymngr x11perfcomp xkb > XKeysymDB config lbxproxy rgb.txt xdm xman.help > XftConfig doc locale rstart xedit xserver > app-defaults etc mwm twm xinit xsm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 > $ mkdir fonts > mkdir: cannot create directory `fonts': no medium > > If I create the folder in Windows Explorer, the creation works fine, and if > I do "ls", the folder name shows up. However, if I try to do ANYTHING to it > in Cygwin, it gives me a "No such file or directory" error. > > Does anyone know what this stuff means? Is there some specific information > about my system/setup that I could give that would help in figuring out this > problem? > > Thanks in advance. > Andrew Chizhik Andrew, It doesn't work because this directory is a mount. Installing the XFree86-fnts package also mounts c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (to force binary mode). If the directory for some reason disappears, the existence of the mount will not let you do anything with it in Cygwin. You could try to do the following: $ umount -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts $ mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts $ /etc/postinstall/XFree86-fnts.sh.done Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune
