From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: Earnie Boyd Cc: "Timothy I. McGinnis" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: New install problems Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 07:48:00 -0000 Message-id: <19991202104831.B864@cygnus.com> References: <19991202141844.11453.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-12/msg00049.html On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 06:18:44AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- "Timothy I. McGinnis" wrote: >> I'm new to cygwin, I come from a Unix background, so I am lost on windows. >> >> So please forgive my ignorance. >> >> I have tried to install the cygwin full.exe on both 95 and NT 4.0 SP4. I >> would like to set up cygwin so when I bring up the bash shell it maps my >> root to d:/unix. I believe I am following the Users Guide properly. After >> installing cygwin I start the bash shell and it comes up fine. I unmount >> root and remount it using "mount //d/unix /". It gives me the expected >> error message that / does not exist. I then exit out of bash and restart >> it. Now on the 95 box when I try to change to / I get the error message >> 'cd /: No such device'. >> >> On the NT 4.0 box I do the same thing and when I restart bash the cursor >> just sits there for a minute or so then it gives me a prompt. If I try to >> do anything it hangs for a minute or so then gives me a prompt. >> >> Any ideas what I am doing wrong? > >Yep. The follow bash command should work: > >Bash# cd /dir/containing/umount && ./umount / && ./mount 'd:\unix' / > >The way you did it, Cygwin tries to resolve //d/unix to a host named d with a >shared directory named unix. While you're at it, check out my webpages. In Cygwin v1.0 (only available on CD, currently ) mount has a "-f" option to force a mount, so you can do this, too: mount -f d:\unix / FWIW, this mount command is also available in the latest cygwin snapshots. cgf -- 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: Chris Faylor To: Earnie Boyd Cc: "Timothy I. McGinnis" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: New install problems Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19991202104831.B864@cygnus.com> References: <19991202141844.11453.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-12n/msg00049.html Message-ID: <19991231132800.tUPvW8LWocuGJya1gfy3rf_R1mWxLRFlC0_4jkMXeHw@z> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 06:18:44AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- "Timothy I. McGinnis" wrote: >> I'm new to cygwin, I come from a Unix background, so I am lost on windows. >> >> So please forgive my ignorance. >> >> I have tried to install the cygwin full.exe on both 95 and NT 4.0 SP4. I >> would like to set up cygwin so when I bring up the bash shell it maps my >> root to d:/unix. I believe I am following the Users Guide properly. After >> installing cygwin I start the bash shell and it comes up fine. I unmount >> root and remount it using "mount //d/unix /". It gives me the expected >> error message that / does not exist. I then exit out of bash and restart >> it. Now on the 95 box when I try to change to / I get the error message >> 'cd /: No such device'. >> >> On the NT 4.0 box I do the same thing and when I restart bash the cursor >> just sits there for a minute or so then it gives me a prompt. If I try to >> do anything it hangs for a minute or so then gives me a prompt. >> >> Any ideas what I am doing wrong? > >Yep. The follow bash command should work: > >Bash# cd /dir/containing/umount && ./umount / && ./mount 'd:\unix' / > >The way you did it, Cygwin tries to resolve //d/unix to a host named d with a >shared directory named unix. While you're at it, check out my webpages. In Cygwin v1.0 (only available on CD, currently ) mount has a "-f" option to force a mount, so you can do this, too: mount -f d:\unix / FWIW, this mount command is also available in the latest cygwin snapshots. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com