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Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation
- From: John Morrison <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:34:18 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030930173957.00b0c940@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov><Pine.GSO.4.56.0309301831320.26607@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
>
> > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
> > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
> > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the
> > /home/$USER directory ($USER means the user name I use to log onto my
> > computer). The actual directory is /sygdrive/c, which means the c: drive
> > on my computer. What went wrong in my installation and can anyone help me?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> At a guess, your HOME is set incorrectly in Windows.
Igor, think there's anything /etc/profile could do about this?
J.
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