Thanks but I just managed to solve the problem. I thought that perhaps
there might not be much space on the drive so I used "df". It told me that
one of the other VFAT partitions had been mounted as "/tmp". The
installation must have done this - because I sure didn't. I actually
uninstalled and reinstalled it, and it must have done the same thing - I'm
not sure why.
Anyway I unmounted "/tmp" by typing "umount /tmp" and from then on
everything was fine. But I would not have figured that out if I hadn't
typed "du" (although point 5 "check your mounts" below would have found it).
Thanks very much for everyone's help.
- Dion.
At 15:23 30/03/1999 +0300, Michael V. Nikolaev wrote:
>Looks like invalid installation. My IMHO is as follows:
>
>0) Read carefully "Setting up GHC on Win32 platforms" by Sigbjorn Finne on
GHC WWW page. Your primary goal is to get cygwin32 be correctly installed.
>
>1) Be shure you have cygwin version 20.1 installed. If not, uninstall
installed cygwin, get cygwin 20.1 (The main WWW page for the Cygwin project
is http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. A page containing tool-specific
information is http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/. Links to additional
documentation are accessible from the main web page. ). Also you should get
EGCS-1.1.2 for cygwin binaries to replace GCC and brothers.
>
>2) Read Cygwin FAQ and User Manual (see Cygwin homepage).
>
>3) You should start bash via batch file cygnus.bat only
(h:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\cygnus.bat).
>This file should contain environment variable PATH (e.g, SET
PATH=h:\cygnus\cygwin~1\H-i586~1\bin;%PATH%) that sets cygnus bin directory
in the first place, among other variables (see FAQ and installation
instructions).
>
>4) You should have (create) directories /usr, /bin, /var (/var/log), /etc.
The bin directory should contain sh.exe (that is, in general, copy of
bash.exe). Or, you can create symbolic link for /bin to be as
/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin (I have, e.g., such link).
>
>5) Check your mounts: say "mount" at bash prompt and check output. You
should have (in your case) root directory be mounted as H:\\.
>
>6) Remeber that Windows 95/98 is not the best choice to run cygwin
(mostly, due to poor Win32 API). Windows NT 4.0 (SP3 or SP4, SP standing
for Service Pack) would be better.
>
>7) If you can't solve the problem, you should run "cygcheck -s -v -r" at
bash prompt and send the output with the description of your problem to
"someone who can help" (if I can I will try).
>
>8) If "someone" can't help you, you can subscribe to cygwin mail list (see
FAQ) to ask about it.
>
>Good luck and Best Wishes,
>
>Michael
>
>P.S. By the way, I had Windows95 (afterwards Windows98) installed
previously and there were problems with cygwin. Now I have NT 4.0 SP4
installed and no Windows9x-like problems.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dion McMurtrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Michael V. Nikolaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: GHC bugs mail-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 29 aadaciy 1999 d. 18:49
>Subject: Re: problem setting up GHC on Win32
>
>
>>I tried this. The directory is there and accessable in win95, but when I
>>run the cygwin bash shell I still get the error message that the /tmp
>>directory should be created. If I change directories to the root directory
>>and then try to chang into the tmp directory this happens -
>>
>>DETLOG.OLD ahis.htm
>>DETLOG.TXT assignment1p95.rtf
>>Diablo bin
>>Eudora cal98_ge.pdf
>>Exchange ffastun.ffa
>>FILE0000.CHK ffastun.ffl
>>Fitsh.c ffastun.ffo
>>IO.SYS ffastun0.ffx
>>IO32.IDX ghc1015.hs
>>JGLBatchFileSetup.001 ghc1023.hs
>>MAKEFILE os1981.txt
>>MOUSE pk250w32.exe
>>MSDOS.--- single_0.sv
>>MSDOS.SYS single_1.sv
>>My Documents tmp
>>NETLOG.TXT v95i314e.zip
>>New Microsoft Publisher Document.pub
>>BASH.EXE-2.02$ pwd
>>/
>>BASH.EXE-2.02$ cd tmp
>>BASH.EXE-2.02$ pwd
>>/
>>BASH.EXE-2.02$ ls -l tmp
>>ls: tmp: No such file or directory
>>BASH.EXE-2.02$
>>
>>The top part is a directory listing (ls) of the root directory and as you
>>can see second from the bottom on the right hand side is the directory tmp.
>> But when I try to change directory to it, nothing seems to happen. When I
>>try to do an "ls -l tmp" it says the directory doesn't exist.
>>
>>I have tried deleting the directory with win95 and re-createing it with
>>both win95 and cygwin, and neither works. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>At 18:53 27/03/1999 +0200, Michael V. Nikolaev wrote:
>>>Try to create /tmp from Windows environment, not from cygwin bash shell.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Michael
>>>
