R: Question about cygwin installation and folder permissions

Marco Atzeri marco_atzeri@yahoo.it
Sat Nov 27 22:10:00 GMT 2010


--- Sab 27/11/10, Vincent Richomme ha scritto:

> Hi,
> 
> First I am sorry to ask this question but I would like to
> know if some cygwin developers
> could give me some advice about the way of installing a
> software at the root drive
> (ex c:\mysoftware) on Windows Vista/7 operating systems.
> Indeed normally on those systems application are installed
> inside Progam Files and
> have limited write access.
> However with cygwin you manage to install it anywhere you
> want and you have write access.
> So if you could give me some ideas it would help me a lot.
> 
> Thanks
> 

run setup and choose the directory you want

the default proposal is c:\cygwin

Regards
Marco




--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple



More information about the Cygwin mailing list