cygwin not mount / when start bash

cygwin not mount / when start bash

[Nick Urbanik]

Dear Folks,

I'm running cygwin on Windows XP. I do not have administrator access
to this machine.

When I start cygwin.bat, the / directory is not mounted, so /bin/sh
does not exist, so not much works.  How do I mount this?  Does it
depend on write access to the Windows registry?  My attempts to make
the mount have failed:

mount -s c:\cygdrive /
mount: /: Invalid argument

All suggestions welcome.  There's not much I can use this corporate
desktop for without a working cygwin.
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Re: cygwin not mount / when start bash

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 8/16/2011 4:14 AM, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> I'm running cygwin on Windows XP. I do not have administrator access
> to this machine.
>
> When I start cygwin.bat, the / directory is not mounted, so /bin/sh
> does not exist, so not much works. How do I mount this? Does it
> depend on write access to the Windows registry? My attempts to make
> the mount have failed:
>
> mount -s c:\cygdrive /
> mount: /: Invalid argument
>
> All suggestions welcome. There's not much I can use this corporate
> desktop for without a working cygwin.

When you installed, did you pick "All Users" or "Just Me"?  Also, please
read and follow the problem reporting guidelines outlined at this link:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

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