X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:11:24 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] Alternative root directory. Sort of a regression. Message-ID: <20090727091124.GY18621@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A6C347D.2010404@shaddybaddah.name> <416096c60907270157l6f8fe287pfddac957fb03207d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416096c60907270157l6f8fe287pfddac957fb03207d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jul 27 09:57, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/7/26 Shaddy Baddah: > > This certainly works, but as the method requires correction of the > > root directory post (or during) the parse of /etc/fstab, it is not > > suitable for forcing the location of the /etc/fstab through an > > alternate root directory. > > The root directory still is in the registry, at > HKLM/Software/Cywin/setup/rootdir (with added Wow6432Node on 64-bit > Windows). Obviously, hacking around with that is completely > unsupported. that rootdir is only used by setup.exe, not by Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple