From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: gnu-win32 without registry entries? 16 Oct 1998 11:44:56 -0700 Message-ID: <19981016005023.26678.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1e.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Enoch Wu , john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Since I've stated this before, I'll third it. As to how to find /etc/fstab use an environment variable called CYGROOT. If CYGROOT doesn't exist then it must be c:/etc/fstab. ---Enoch Wu wrote: > > Hi all, > > I second it! We should be able to use a mount table like linux's fstab on > the C drive's root directory. How do you mount it on c:/root/b19/etc/fstab > for example, assuming the root is at c:/root/b19 ? Perhaps the location of > fstab can be hard-coded like c:/root/etc/fstab. > > Enoch > > At 05:34 PM 10/13/98 -0700, john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com wrote: > >As far as I can tell, the only thing the registry entries are used for is > >to set up the simulated mounts, with the binary text options. > > > >How much trouble would it be to do this with a mount table as per Linux, > >instead of putting it in the registry? > > > >One reason I ask is that I work for a big company and our IS people want > >everyone to have standard registry entries. It seems to me that everything > >else I really need works without messing with the registry. > > > >Other than that, I'm really quite pleased with cyg-win/gnu-win. > > > >John Velman > >jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com > >- > >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > > > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > == - \\||// -----------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------ -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://freeyellow.com/members5/gw32 -- --------------ooo0O--O0ooo--------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".