[Kde-nonlinux] KDE on Cygwin on external harddrive

[Carmil 1]

I installed Cygwin (1.5.16) +KDE on an external USB harddrive on WindowsXP 
sp2.


The drive was mounted to a path (instead of a drive-letter) on the local 
NTFS C: drive
so C:\CygwinHD is actually the extrenal drive.
this can be configured in the "disk management" here-
START "%SystemRoot%\System32\mmc.exe" "%SystemRoot%\System32\compmgmt.msc"

The installation was using Cygwin setup.exe tool, and went smoothly.

The terminal was running the bash with no apparent problems.

I did `rebaseall` as explaind in the FAQ
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php
and restarted the computer (just to be on the safe side).
now i tried to `startx &`
On the very first time it was asking me for locale info (language and 
country) - as expected.
But it hanged at the stage of 'initializing system services' and after a 
minute the splash screen disappeared and i saw only the blue screen of the 
XWin.
For some unknown reason it complained that the 'dcopserver' service is 
already running, while i'm positively sure that it was not running before i 
launched the `startx` (i check in the TASKMGR.EXE, and looked that the file 
/home/myusername/.DCOPserver_xxxxxxxx__0 was not existing).

When i ran the XWin alone and then ran `kwrite` (for example) it ran ok. but 
the KDE Desktop itself would not run.


I changed the mount point of the external harddisk to be a normal 
drive-letter (instead of path), and fixed the registry keys accordingly (in 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin) and tried again, it was 
now running perfectly.


FYI



C1