Install stalls

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:51:02PM +0100, jp wrote:
>jp wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>I can't seem to get cygwin/X installed. I've tried a clean install of 
>>the whole cygwin enviroment from a few different mirrors.
>>But (regardless of the mirror) it always gets stuck at:
>>
>>Installing
>>xorg-x11-fenc-6.7.0.0-2
>>/usr/X116R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/adobe-dingbats.enc.gz
>>
>>If I deselect the fenc package i get stuck here:
>>
>>Installing
>>xorg-x11-fnts-6.7.0.0-1
>>/usr/X116R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/charB08.pcf.gz
>>
>>deslecting that the whole thing installs but I can't startx, as I have 
>>no fonts.
>>
>>I've got ~19Gig free on my HD so its not that.
>>
>>any ideas?
>>
>>
>
>Solved!
>A registry key from an old install was pointing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts 
>at a disk which no longer there.
>
>Weird that this dir has its own registry key though. I changed the
>key so that it points into the rest of the cygwin install.
>Perhaps I can remove the key but for now that works

The command for manipulating the cygwin mount table is called "mount".

You should use this to manipulate the mont table rather than
manipulating the registry directly.

This is a recording.

cgf