From: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: Re: I'm confused by mount, umount, and the registry, beta 17 9 Dec 1996 14:42:59 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Cc: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <3 DOT 0 DOT 32 DOT 19961208063156 DOT 00927da0 AT pop DOT ni DOT net> jdeifik AT weasel DOT com wrote > 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 I had a similar problem trying to 'mount d: /d' - I exited bash and any other Gnu-Win32 programs (so the Cygwin32 DLL would unload) then edited the Registry (by the way the Reg Editor saves each change as it is made) and started bash again. I may have rebooted the system but this should not be necessary. .... > 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. HKEY_CURRENT_USER is analogous to a symbolic link - it points to the current user under HKEY_USERS, so you should only need to delete the HKEY_USERS copy. Logging in to Win95 again should reset the current user stuff. Richard -- richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys AT keys DOT pgp DOT net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".