Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <38D91D30.6D991812@veritas.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:21:20 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Champ CC: Cygwin-general Subject: Re: "mount" References: <000201bf942e$b0561060$f533173f AT toolbox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sean Champ wrote: > > for cygwin-b20.1 on w98: > > i remember reading something about the mounting-system changing between b20.1 and the current snapshots (or something similar to that, hopefully), so maybe this is irrelevant to those > > but what exactly could cause "mount" to say that a pathname does not exist, when it looks definitely like it does? > > eg: > == == == == > > % mount -b c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/bin /bin > > returns: > > "Warning: /bin does not exist!" > > ( and > % cd /bin > % dir > shows all o.k.) > > == == == == > > also, if i'm mounting /bin like that, will it cause things in ~/i586-cygwin32/bin to be ignored? or are those things a redundancy for someone not currently doing cygwin-builds for multiple platforms? > > ( and is i586 any different than what might be built on an AMD K6 ?) > > thanks > > -- sean > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Did you do the cd to, and dir of, /bin _after_ running the mount command? If so, the association of "/bin" to the directory "c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/h-i586-cygwin32/bin" has been made and a cd to /bin will "translate" to the other. Try doing a "cd /" and "ls". If "bin" does not show up in the output, then that is what "mount" is complaining about. I just tried this and the results follow (directory name is different since I have a /bin already): $ ls houdini ls: houdini: No such file or directory $ mount -b i:/ $PWD/houdini Warning: /home/bob/houdini does not exist! $ ls Company Info downloads projects archives inputrc tmp bin mail tools broadcasts megami cygwin stuff mymail $ cd houdini /home/bob/houdini -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com