winxp/winme duelboot

[Tim Prince]

The grief you've apparently brought on yourself by installing
multiple Windows versions on the same partition is off topic, but
you might consider running cygwin setup in each OS.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <roger.m@starband.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:31 AM
Subject: winxp/winme duelboot


> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> i have:
>
> windowsme = c:\winme
> windowsxp = c:\winxp
> Program files (or program install paths) = d:\cygwin &
d:\cygwin_install
>
> i originally installed cygwin while within winxp, but now want
cygwin to
> execute from within winme/98.
>
>
> when i execute the d:\cygwin\cygwin.bat file which in winme/98,
it complains
> in the console about 'no /tmp file, please create it' and then,
once i did
> this, it then logged me into as 'bash$' but would allow for any
programs to
> execute /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/find , and so on (or just 'ls' and
'grep'...not
> sure if cygwin has similar paths, in linux now).
>
> i'm guessing there is a 'paths' file that cygwin_install
installs for
> win98/me systems?
>
> one main reason why i have to use cygwin now is becuase ms's ie
6.0 upgrade
> disabled the 'find files' utility in winme (doh! dmt!) oh well,
i find
> command line console much easier then their gui utilities!



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/