[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

setup.exe seems to copy some files, e.g. font files, to a wrong drive.

For example, if setup.exe is located (and run) at D:\cygwin_install directory and
the target directory is C:\cygwin, then setup.exe copies lots of stuff
to D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts\...

It would seem that somewhere the target root is set to \cygwin instead of C:\cygwin ?

No.


You have the 2nd problem described here:

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof

Whether or not you admit it or know it, you at one time had Cygwin installed to d:\cygwin, which left in place a pointer to d:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts as the location where fonts should be unpacked to.

Run 'mount', you may or may not notice that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts still points to the D drive (this was likely already corrected by the postinstall step).

I'm seeing this so often that I am *almost* motivated enough to write a patch to setup.exe to bitch when there are invalid mount points and asking the user if they would like to remove those mount points before unpacking packages.

Harold

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