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Re: Using cygwin with a dual boot operating system


On 07/05/2010 04:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:22:58AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 06/05/2010 21:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:22:39PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>>> Please bear in mind that what you are attempting to do is not really
>>>> supported, so don't be surprised if you don't get a bunch of help.
>>> I don't see why this wouldn't be supported actually.  If the 32/64 bit
>>> systems have similar setups it should just work.
>>   But surely they'll have different and incmpatible SIDs and perms and
>> everything?
> 
> True, when I do this, I do have a different version of group and passwd
> per system.
> 
> But, actually Corinna is contemplating something that will make that
> unnecessary.

  So, it might just start working as-is if OP runs mkpasswd and mkgroup from
within both 64-bit and 32-bit boot systems and concatenates the results.

    cheers,
      DaveK




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