Resore my settings after reinstalling windows

Yongtao Yang yongtao.yang@telia.com
Sat Mar 8 15:23:00 GMT 2003


Max Bowsher wrote:

>Yongtao Yang wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello, list,
>>
>>This is my first message to the list, if it is just a FAQ, please
>>forgive me and kindly point me to the link. BTW, I have briefly
>>browsed the cygwin FAQ.
>>
>>I have a copy of cygwin/xfree86 installed and worked fine for a couple
>>of months. But last week my windows became unbootable and I can not
>>repair it using the Windows setup disk. So that I have to reinstall
>>windows2000 over the old copy. Now cyqwin does not work. When start
>>the cyrwin.bat, it prints :
>>
>>bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
>>
>>in the command window, and I can not many commands like 'ls' . So how
>>can I restore the original enviroment settings?
>>    
>>
>
>Re-run the setup program, giving the same Cygwin root directory. It will see
>there is an install already there, and reset the mount table appropriately.
>You can upgrade some packages at this time, or you can just set everything
>to "Keep", and proceed through to the end of setup.
>
>
>Max.
>  
>
Hi, Max,

Thank you very much,  I am upgrading now, seems to be fine.

Yongtao


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