From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31183 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2003 09:29:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31172 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2003 09:29:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO koeln.convey.de) (62.138.63.18) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2003 09:29:24 -0000 Received: from familiehaase.de (62.155.253.197) by koeln.convey.de with [XMail 1.12 (Win32/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id for from ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:23 +0200 Received: from 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1:2479) by familiehaase.de with [XMail 1.15 (Win32/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id for from ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:35:30 +0200 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:29:00 -0000 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <73987857854.20030913113525@familiehaase.de> To: "Zeilhofer, Peter" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin on external drive? In-Reply-To: <2BFFCAFAC0A7D4119FE7009027FD762204DC83F8@mchrd21e.mch.fsc.net> References: <2BFFCAFAC0A7D4119FE7009027FD762204DC83F8@mchrd21e.mch.fsc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00813.txt.bz2 Hallo Peter, Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2003 um 11:32 schriebst du: > I moved a complete perfectly working Cygwin-configuration with > Apache and SSL from C:\cygwin to F.\cygwin an external 40GB disk > drive (connected via USB) and tried to get it running, but it will > not work. I must say that I have expected problems. Should this be > possible after a straight installation on an external drive from the > beginning? > I think I found a hint in some faq that installation on C:\cygwin is > not mandatory. > Thanks in advance :-) Works well for me with the correct mounts. But using services which are running under 'Local System' account doesn't work because Windows 'mounts' (Shared Drives/Folders) are only visible to the user but not to the system. Servus, Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/