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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:25:20 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...?
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:06:41PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>It is not advisable to a general newbie, mostly because if (and when)
>problems do arise (and they are *likely* to, with all the different
>software out there), people who don't know what they're doing are going to
>bug the list, which is high-volume as it is.  The intent, as I understand
>it, is to avoid the "I made C:\ my root, and now it doesn't work, and I
>don't know enough Cygwin/Unix/whatever else to fix it, please help" type
>of messages.

Bingo.  Igor is one sharp guy.

The bottom line is that if you know what you're doing, there's no reason
not to do anything you want with cygwin.  You can avoid mount and just
write the registry directly with regedit.  Or, for that matter you can
use a binary editor to edit the registry.  Hey, you could use a binary
editor to edit your filesystem if you want.

If you know what you're doing.

It's your computer.

However, it's my mailing list and if you start complaining about
everything being all screwed up after you mount your root as c:\ (which
I used to do myself all of the time) or how your mount table looks funny
after you used modified the registry with 'ed' or how your computer
won't boot anymore since you flashed your BIOS by rubbing a balloon on
your cat and zapping the ROM with your finger, then expect a laser-thin
searing well-deserved blast of meanness from the general direction
of cygwin at cygwin dot com.

cgf

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