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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:55:18 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: New machine, new Cygwin instillation, target triple mess
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On 07/31/2009 07:05 AM, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed Cygwin on my new machine with a new harddrive, on
> Vista.
>
> I had the old harddrive working with my old Cygwin instillation working
> on this machine, with Vista. Target triple was fine.

What's a "Target triple"?

> Questions :-
>
> How do I get my old Cygwin Instillation to work for my E: drive, I could
> not see anything in the Windows Registry to change to deal with this. I
> changed the shortcut over to drive E, but Cygwin just bombs out.
>
> How do I check a target triple from Cygwin, I found 'uname' but it was
> giving me i686, and so unknown values.
>
> I really need to get my old Cygwin working, and to know about anything
> like installing Cygwin on a new 4 CPU AMD machine could effect the arget
> triple generation.

My WAG is it's your mounts.  Type "mount -m >/tmp/mounts", edit that file
in an editor that will not introduce carriage returns, remove all lines
that don't contain a drive designation, copy the rest and create duplicates. 
  In the first set of duplicated commands, change "mount" to
"umount".  In the second set, change all the drive designations
(i.e. 'C:') to the drive you want (i.e. 'E:').  Save the file and exit.
Move '/tmp/mounts' to the directory containing 'cygwin1.dll' (i.e.
"E:\cygwin\bin').  Open a 'cmd.exe' console and 'cd' to the same
directory.  Type 'bash', followed by 'chmod +x mounts', followed by
'mounts'.  This should unmount references to your old installation location
and then mount the new one.  Delete 'mounts'.

If the above doesn't work or you have other questions, please use the
problem reporting guidelines found at the link below.

> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html


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