From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: "McCunney, Dennis" , "Cygwin Mailing list \(E-mail\)" Subject: Re: Cygwin mounts Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:10:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990715021048.19143.rocketmail@web114.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-07/msg00276.html --- "McCunney, Dennis" wrote: > I'm starting to explore the possibility of using Cygwin's "mount" facility. > It looks like an elegant solution to several problems. But there is one > question I haven't seen discussed here: what happens if you already _have_ > an existing directory structure with /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local, /etc, etc., > and things in them? > > I have a variety of non-Cygwin Unix tools, in a Unix style directory > hierarchy. I'd prefer to keep distributions seperate, but it appears that > blending them will be forced, unless I'm missing something basic. > You've missed something basic. Leave the cygwin related tools in a directory under cygwin for example and use the umount and mount programs to remount the root to the cygwin directory. More detail at the link in the sig. > Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom. You're welcome, === Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > Newbies, please visit < http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html > (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: "McCunney, Dennis" , "Cygwin Mailing list \(E-mail\)" Subject: Re: Cygwin mounts Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:34:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990715021048.19143.rocketmail@web114.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-07n/msg00276.html Message-ID: <19990731183400.46QQSpA9QnSvTPwjttacU7Vo7M_YK0gGaXVP-XRqytA@z> --- "McCunney, Dennis" wrote: > I'm starting to explore the possibility of using Cygwin's "mount" facility. > It looks like an elegant solution to several problems. But there is one > question I haven't seen discussed here: what happens if you already _have_ > an existing directory structure with /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local, /etc, etc., > and things in them? > > I have a variety of non-Cygwin Unix tools, in a Unix style directory > hierarchy. I'd prefer to keep distributions seperate, but it appears that > blending them will be forced, unless I'm missing something basic. > You've missed something basic. Leave the cygwin related tools in a directory under cygwin for example and use the umount and mount programs to remount the root to the cygwin directory. More detail at the link in the sig. > Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom. You're welcome, === Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > Newbies, please visit < http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html > (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com