Re: Problems installing Swarm 2.2

[Paul Johnson]

address@hidden wrote:
> Paul Johnson writes:
>
>
> > But you need to do these things.
> > 1. remove swarm-2.1 with the windows uninstall program.
>
> I am afraid I did not do this properly, see later (I don't think I know what
> you mean by the windows uninstall program)

Windows has a control panel, with an add/remove programs icon. I intend 
you to go here to remove swarm-2.1.1


> > 2. Install the new cygwin toolkit, make sure it runs. Open a cygwin 
> > terminal, type mount, make sure it looks proper, verify that / is 
> > pointing to the directory where you install cygwin. It defaults to 
> > c:\cygwin.

I fear your cygwin install failed because you did not have swarm 
uninstalled, and so you got those things mingled together.


> I installed cygwin from the internet. Installation and setup run without
> errors. Then I try to run cygwin.bat that tries to change directory to
> c:\cygwin\bin\ and run bash --login -i. However, there is no \bin directory
> under cygwin. The only directories are: 'etc', 'lib', 'sbin', 'usr', 'var'. 
> I found out that cygwin recreated the old Swarm-2.1.1 directory and put the
> bin-files in a \bin directory; I don't know why, I specified c:\cygwin. I
> also removed all references to Swarm-2.1.1 from the autoexec.bat. When I run
> 'mount' in the Swarm-2.1.1/bin directory, it says:
>
> C:\Swarm-2.1.1\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
> C:\Swarm-2.1.1\bin on /bin type user (textmode)
> C:\Swarm-2.1.1 on /Swarm-2.1.1 type user (textmode)
> C:\cygwin\\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
> C:\TEMP on /tmp type user (textmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
> d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)

You are messed up now, probably just need to start over after a clean up.

Are you able to use the Cygwin icon to at least get a Cygwin terminal 
open?  You need that in order to use mount to unmount all your drives. 
You need to clean up because the definitions you have are confusing your 
new cygwin install. Look above, the first line diverts /usr/bin into the 
Swarm-2.1.1\bin directory.

The mount command can remove mounts, I'm not in windows now so I can't 
tell the options. But you can look them up with "mount --help".

But if you cant' get into a terminal, then that's trouble. I think you 
can just drag and drop the cygwin files out of C:\Swarm-2.1.1\bin into 
c:\cygwin\bin.  Then try to run cygwin again.  If so, do the thing to 
remove all mounts.

Then I'd say you should try to remove Swarm-2.1.1 with the add/remove 
programs thing. Then remove cygwin, and then try for a clean install of 
cygwin. HOpefully, when you did that the time before, you downloaded the 
packages, so it will be easy to reinstall.  If not, you have to be patient.


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Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
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