Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg. PATH)do not get set up properlly. When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up. Also for some reason the .bash_history file is in my c:\ directory, even though I installed cygwin in c:\cygwin. For now I have manually created the home directory and set the path. I would appreciate any pointers on how to have the installation go smoothly/where it is possibly going wrong. Dave _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/