question about setup

[John Vincent]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I'll be trying this in the
next few days. Any problems and I'll let you
know :-))

Thanks again.
/John Vincent.



>From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
>To: "John Vincent" <jpv50@hotmail.com>,<geek@burri.to>
>CC: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Subject: Re: question about setup
>Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:34:12 +1000
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Vincent" <jpv50@hotmail.com>
>To: <geek@burri.to>
>Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:13 PM
>
>You've got it exactly right.
>
> > I know this is a bit mickey-mouse, but I want to check
> > I'm doing the right thing. I know people who use this
> > list disaprove of any installation not done using
> > setup.exe.
>
>It's not that we disapprove, it's that we don't know the quality of 
>installs
>done without setup.exe. Were the postinstall scripts run? Was /usr/bin
>mounted? Were all the dependent packages run?
>
>Rob




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