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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:21:02 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: gary DOT danko AT akamai DOT com
Subject: Re: Pushing out Cygwin installations
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In-Reply-To: <8928D5E06A71D4118C13001083F9AD4FDE1B49@sandiego-ex1.sandiego.akamai.com>; from gary.danko@akamai.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:41:51PM -0500

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:41:51PM -0500, Danko, Gary wrote:
>Okay let me get this straight. :)
>
>Got a plain vanilla install.  Copy the Cygwin directory to the new server.
>Create the mount points and I am done?
>
>Do I need to copy HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions ???
>
>Oh, I tried to run mount.. Here's what happened.
>
>bash-2.04$ pwd
>/cygwin/bin
>bash-2.04$ ./mount
>Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>bash-2.04$ ./mount d:\cygwin /
>./mount: /: Invalid argument
>bash-2.04$

Bash is a UNIX shell.  '\' is a quoting character in bash.

So, your options are:

1) Don't run the command from bash.

2) Use a '/':

./mount d:/cygwin /

3) Double the backslashes:

./mount d:\\cygwin /

4) Quote the first argument:

./mount 'd:\cygwin' /

cgf

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