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Re: Cygwin on external drive?


On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:32:06AM +0200, Zeilhofer, Peter wrote:
> Servus to all,
> 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?

You must change your mount points to use the new Windows paths instead of
the old ones.  Use mount and umount.  Perhaps you have to cd into the
new bin directory first and call ./mount instead of just mount.

Corinna

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