Re: mount woes

[Dave Ray <ray at mgi dot com>]

Jeff Deifik wrote:
> 
> I have a computer running windows nt 4.0 server, sp2.
> I installed beta-18.
> I wish to mount d: / since my NT partition is there, and I
> installed beta-18 there.
> I have read the readme.txt, which refers me to faq.txt.
> I have read the faq.txt, which says:
> 
> >Where did my mount points go?
> >=============================
> >
> >   Earlier releases stored mount points in the registry under "Cygnus
> >Support".  This changed to "Cygnus Solutions" starting with beta 18.
> >Either use a registry editor (regedit under NT) to rename the old entry
> >or just redo your mount points and the cygwin.dll will automatically
> >create the new one for you.
> 
> So I tried to redo my mount points.
> I typed 'mount --reset', which produced no errors.
> I typed 'mount d: /', and I got the message
>         mount failed: Device or resource busy
> 
> I thrashed around a bit, without being able to mount d: as /
> 
> When I type mount, I get what I assume the defaults are, which are:
> Device           Directory           Type        Flags
> \\.\tape1:       /dev/st1            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
> \\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
> \\.\b:           /dev/fd1            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
> \\.\a:           /dev/fd0            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
> c:               /                   native      no-mixed,text!=binary
> 
> I would prefer not using the registry editor if possible to fix this.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>         Jeff Deifik             jdeifik@weasel.com
> 
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You need to do a 'umount /' first to free the mount point,
then the 'mount d: /' command should work.

-Dave Ray 	ray@mgi.com
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