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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:49:25 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alain_M=E9rigot?= <am AT ief DOT u-psud DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: ls: /: No such file or directory   What can I do?
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> ...
>>Alain,
>>
>>If you run the following from Cygwin shell (or cmd.exe/command.com as long
>>as D:\Cygwin is in your PATH):
>>
>>$ mount -f -s -b "D:/Cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
>>$ mount -f -s -b "D:/Cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
>>$ mount -f -s -b "D:/Cygwin" "/"
>>
>>and if you have XFree86* installed you might want to run this, too:
>>
>>$ mount -f -s -b "D:/Cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
>>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
>>
>>And you should be alright... :-)
>>
>>Elfyn
> 
> 
> Ahem, make that "E:/Cygwin/bin", "E:/Cygwin/lib", and "E:/Cygwin"...
> 
> Alain, your problem is that the mount source should be a Win32 path, not a
> POSIX path, so the /cygdrive/e/cygwin was confusing the mount mechanism
> (it was looking for \cygdrive\e\cygwin on the current drive, and of course
> didn't find it).  "man mount" for more details.
> 	Igor

All is working now. Thanks for all.

Alain



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