Am Dienstag, den 25.01.2005, 12:20 -0500 schrieb Brian Keener: > Neven Luetic wrote: > > I am able to change owner and permissions of these files to whatever I > > want, but I can not delete them ("Permission denied"). > > > > What should I do, to get a clean new install? > > > Have you completely rebooted (never hurts just to make sure) and followed the > directions in the FAQ: > > http://cygwin.com/faq.html
I did reboot and read the faq. However, I didn't *first* delete the desktop icon and the registry tree, but tried to delete the cygwin dir prior to this. > Also you do not mention what OS which might help you get help. It's W2K. In the meantime I moved the directory away and I am able to install a new cygwin and remove it by deleting the directory. However I can not get rid of the old directory. Everything inside, that's a real file, can be deleted manually by setting the appropriate privileges - what remains are just the stale symbolic links and some symbolic links to Windows files like /etc/hosts to C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\networks. Neven -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/