Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:43:06 -0800 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs In-Reply-To: <20050122043950.GB26399@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41F0D6DB.8010107@gmx.ch> <20050121163345.GD20002@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050122032443.GB25794@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <41F1D559.57F60BD2@dessent.net> <20050122043950.GB26399@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes > >How about a FAQ entry along the following lines: > > > >How do I save, restore, delete, or modify the Cygwin information stored > >in the registry? > > > >Currently Cygwin stores its mount table information in the registry. It > >is recommended that you use the 'mount' and 'umount' commands to > >manipulate the mount information instead of directly modifying the > >registry. > > > >To save the mount information to a file for later restoration, use > >"mount -m > mounts.txt". To remove all mount information use "umount > >-A". To reincorporate saved mount information use "eval mounts.txt". > > The "mount -m" command is actually intended to be a .bat, so it can > be something like: > > c:\>mount -m > mounts.bat # to record it OK, I've added that one and one about building a live CD since that's been coming up, too: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC24 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/