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Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 08:38:12 -0500
From: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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To: Peter Rasmussen <raz AT zip DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Command not found
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How did you uninstall/reinstall/relocate? Cygwin, when installed with 
setup.exe, creates default mount tables that are stored in the registry 
under HKLM/software/cygnus/...

It could be that the mount values in the registry point to the old 
location of your /usr/bin directory, and so when the path gets set when 
you start a bash shell, it is looking in the wrong place and can't find 
any commands.

 From a bash prompt, type /cygdrive/c/place-you-reinstalled-cygwin/bin/mount

It should tell you what the mount points are. If you see something like

C:\Program Files\cygwin mounted to / type system
C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin mounted to /usr/bin type system

Then you need to change your mount points. You can do this by typing the 
full path to your new cygwin install to call "umount" and "mount" to 
unmount the old stuff and mount the new, correct locations. I recommend 
using mount -bs C:/cygwin /
this will mount in binary mode and make a system mount (important for 
some programs). Note that for unmounting "type system" mounts, you type 
"umount -s <mount-point>".

HTH,
Peter

Peter Rasmussen wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Re: Command not found
> 
> On uninstalling and reinstalling Cygwin in a new location on my computer
> various commands like ls, pwd, make info no longer work.
> 
> I made the initial mistake of installing Cygwin in my "Program Files"
> directory.  On learning that it has a problem with spaces in the path name.
> I relocated it.  Is there a directory log of some sort that I have to remove
> to fix this?  What do you recommend?  My computer specifications are below.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Peter
> 
> I am running:
> Windows 98 on
> Gateway
> 333Mhz
> 64 Mb Memory
> 3.5 Gig hard drive (system)
> 22 Gig hard drive (other)
> 4MB ATI Rage Pro AGP Graphics Accelerator
> SoundBlaster Audio PCT 64V
> GVC 56K PCI modem
> 
> 
> 
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