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Re: New install problems
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: New install problems
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:48:31 -0500
- Cc: "Timothy I. McGinnis" <tmcginnis at synertechsystems dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <19991202141844.11453.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot 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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