From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Timothy I. McGinnis" <tmcginnis@synertechsystems.com>,
cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: New install problems
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991202104831.B864@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19991231132800.tUPvW8LWocuGJya1gfy3rf_R1mWxLRFlC0_4jkMXeHw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19991202141844.11453.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 06:18:44AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- "Timothy I. McGinnis" <tmcginnis@synertechsystems.com> 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 <but I'm working on that>)
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-31 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-02 6:18 Earnie Boyd
1999-12-02 7:48 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Earnie Boyd
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-12-02 8:46 New Install Problems Timothy I. McGinnis
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Timothy I. McGinnis
1999-12-02 8:22 New install problems Earnie Boyd
1999-12-02 8:56 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-02 12:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-12-02 12:48 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Chris Faylor
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-12-02 5:56 Timothy I. McGinnis
1999-12-04 3:05 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-12-31 13:28 ` Timothy I. McGinnis
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