Complete newbie to cygwin

[Raistlin Mage]

And not much better to linux.
Ok so I follow painfully the setup steps and lose connections several times 
so I ahve some 20 ftpsite folders sitting on my harddrive and I attempt to 
install from them only to find that bash gives me unknown directory errors 
and doesn't seem to know what commands like ls etc are.
So... ummm...
HELP :-)
-Rao

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