From: jdeifik AT weasel DOT com (Jeff Deifik) Subject: I'm confused by mount, umount, and the registry, beta 17 8 Dec 1996 07:04:54 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961208063156.00927da0.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ni.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jdeifik AT pop DOT ni DOT net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I am running windows NT server 4.0 build 1381 service patch 1. I have a copy of beta-17. I had installed many earlier versions of gnu-w95. I have a c disk which has windows-95, and a d disk which has windows-nt. I want to do a 'mount d: /' when I try this from a dos box, I get the message: mount failed: device or resource busy When I type mount from a dos box, I get: D:\>mount Device Directory Type Flags \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native no-mixed,text!=binary \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native no-mixed,text!=binary \\.\b: /dev/fd1 native no-mixed,text!=binary \\.\a: /dev/fd0 native no-mixed,text!=binary c: / native no-mixed,text!=binary So, using the registry editor, I searched for cygnus. I found it under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/Cygnus Support as well as HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULTS/S-1-5-21.../Software/Cygnus Support Inside of these keys, I find CYGWIN.DLL setup/B15.0/mounts/00 thru 04 I delete everything under Cygnus Support for both HKEY_CURRENT_USER as well as HKEY_USERS. I exit via the registry menu, exit command. I thing that this should modify the registry, but it doesn't seem to, as shown below. I then type the mount command from a dos box, and get the same thing I got above. I still cannot umount /, nor can I mount d: / I reboot the machine (which I would think would use the modified registry), and when I type mount, I get the origional configuration. When I use regedit, I see all the stuff I deleted, inserted again. I looked at my autoexec.bat and config.sys on my c drive, and I didn't see me calling mount. So, I start bash, and with bash I can umount / and mount d: / I can also mount d: /usr So here are my questions: 1) why can I only mount/umount from bash? 2) why do my registry keys keep on springing back to life after I delete them? (after deleting them, I started up regedit again, before rebooting, and they were *indeed* missing, so I surmise that there were deleted correctly) 3) why are the keys under B15.0? (I looked after I modified /, and I found the modified value under B15.0). Jeff turbo Deifik turbo AT weasel DOT com jdeifik AT weasel DOT com www.weasel.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".