Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/10/22/16:56:49
I fourth this one.
Use of the CYGROOT environment variable is both flexible and simple to use.
What if $CYGROOT/etc/mnttab does not exist?
cygwin*.dll should mount / based on $CYGROOT, perhaps it does this already?
Perhaps the default for CYGROOT should be the installation directory?
TTFN,
()z
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> From: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com]On
> Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
> Sent: 16 October 1998 01:50
> To: Enoch Wu; john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com; gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: gnu-win32 without registry entries?
>
>
>
> Since I've stated this before, I'll third it. As to how to find
> /etc/fstab use an environment variable called CYGROOT. If CYGROOT
> doesn't exist then it must be c:/etc/fstab.
>
> ---Enoch Wu <wue AT eskimo DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I second it! We should be able to use a mount table like linux's
> fstab on
> > the C drive's root directory. How do you mount it on
> c:/root/b19/etc/fstab
> > for example, assuming the root is at c:/root/b19 ? Perhaps the
> location of
> > fstab can be hard-coded like c:/root/etc/fstab.
> >
> > Enoch
> >
> > At 05:34 PM 10/13/98 -0700, john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com wrote:
> > >As far as I can tell, the only thing the registry entries are used
> for is
> > >to set up the simulated mounts, with the binary text options.
> > >
> > >How much trouble would it be to do this with a mount table as per
> Linux,
> > >instead of putting it in the registry?
> > >
> > >One reason I ask is that I work for a big company and our IS people
> want
> > >everyone to have standard registry entries. It seems to me that
> everything
> > >else I really need works without messing with the registry.
> > >
> > >Other than that, I'm really quite pleased with cyg-win/gnu-win.
> > >
> > >John Velman
> > >jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com
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