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On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 06:18:44AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- "Timothy I. McGinnis" <tmcginnis AT synertechsystems DOT 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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