Setup and UNC names

Setup and UNC names

[Gunnar Norling]

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Hi,
I would like to setup cygwin on a shared file server
without having to map it to a drive letter. When I run
the setup program, it complains, and states that "The 
install directory must be absolute, with both a drive
letter and leading slash". Is this really necessary?

regards,
/norling 

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Re: Setup and UNC names

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Gunnar Norling wrote:
>Hi,
>I would like to setup cygwin on a shared file server
>without having to map it to a drive letter. When I run
>the setup program, it complains, and states that "The 
>install directory must be absolute, with both a drive
>letter and leading slash". Is this really necessary?

Apparently so.

As is frequently noted here, if you don't like this behavior,
patches are gratefully accepted.

cgf

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Re: Setup and UNC names

[DJ Delorie]

It is for setup, because it sets up the initial mount table, which
really needs drive letters.  I'm pretty sure setup won't like UNC
paths; I don't know if you can use them in the mount table.

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Re: Setup and UNC names

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:57 PM 8/22/2000, DJ Delorie wrote:

>It is for setup, because it sets up the initial mount table, which
>really needs drive letters.  I'm pretty sure setup won't like UNC
>paths; I don't know if you can use them in the mount table.



Yes, you can use UNC paths in the mount table. 



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX



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Re: Setup and UNC names

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:13:32PM +0200, Gunnar Norling wrote:
>
> --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
>skrev: > At 02:57 PM 8/22/2000, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> 
>> >It is for setup, because it sets up the initial
>> mount table, which
>> >really needs drive letters.  I'm pretty sure setup
>> won't like UNC
>> >paths; I don't know if you can use them in the
>> mount table.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, you can use UNC paths in the mount table. 
>
>Yes :-) I tried it as well. I first installed Cygwin
>using a mapped disk (F:). Then I manually altered the
>mount table in the registry to the UNC name I want to
>use. 

There is no reason to edit the registry by hand.  Cygwin's mount program
understands UNC paths.  I rely on this quite heavily.

cgf

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Re: Setup and UNC names

[Gunnar Norling]

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 --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
skrev: > At 02:57 PM 8/22/2000, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> >It is for setup, because it sets up the initial
> mount table, which
> >really needs drive letters.  I'm pretty sure setup
> won't like UNC
> >paths; I don't know if you can use them in the
> mount table.
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, you can use UNC paths in the mount table. 

Yes :-) I tried it as well. I first installed Cygwin
using a mapped disk (F:). Then I manually altered the
mount table in the registry to the UNC name I want to
use. 

It works, but (as usual) the author of the operating
system does not support UNC names in *.bat files. So
when I start bash, using the included `cygwin.bat'
file, I get an error message in the console window.

I'll just have to start bash using a "shortcut" from
the desktop... (setting the environment first).

Thanks. 

 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                             
> lhall@rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                     
> http://www.rfk.com
> 118 Washington Street                   (508)
> 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508)
> 893-9889 - FAX
> 


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