At 5:40 pm +1000 6/3/01 you wrote:
The Win32 installation instructions say that one should execute "mount -f C: /", but having done that in response to this error it does not fix the problem and it stops bash from starting up correctly (Cygwin is installed in c:\cygwin and GHC in c:\ghc\ghc-4.08.2). (Why am I supposed to do this mount?)
From painful experience installing GHC under Win2K I can advise you should install Cygwin at root level now, contrary to advice in Cygwin. Also make sure your disks are mounted in binary mode or things go awry. The sed part of the build process will fail first time around but the build will continue and fail later, so build twice (and no I've no idea why sed fails). After that just the usual amount of salt over the shoulder, frogs leg and bat wing broth, etc. should get it going. ;-) Hope that helps. Nigel Nigel Perry, New Zealand