Reformatted. > > On 09/27/2009 10:51 PM, Andy Holt wrote: >> Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >>> I'm not aware that this has been mentioned before in this thread, but >>> I'd worry that there is no mount table. (I assume that this is cygwin >>> 1.5.) See the documentation on mount (hint: the -m option might be >>> especially useful) or just run setup, clicking through it, on the >>> derivative machines. >> Well, I'm not so sure that that is really a problem... I looked for >> fstab but couldn't even find one so I'm not sure where the mount table >> is specified. BUT I don't think that has anything to do with my current >> problem. I need to 'log in' to bash first. then I'll worry about the >> cygdrive mount points later. As far as the bin, lib, and root directory >> / 'mount points' or whatever, the directory structure is the same across >> all of the windows computers (all running vista). So the bin is always >> C:\Users\Andy\My Dropbox\cygwin\bin, ..\lib ..\ etc. You get the point. >> So yea. >> >> No progress thus far. :( > > I think you'd be enlightened if you looked at the User's Guide like Barry > suggested. Without the proper mounts set, Cygwin is going to have > allot of trouble finding your "installation". Reading up on 'mount' > will help > you understand how to make the mount points the same across all > systems you work on, which will likely help you allot. Also note that > there is no 'fstab' file in Cygwin 1.5 (though there is in 1.7). So > that's > another reason why you want to know about 'mount' and not waste any > time with 'fstab' (on Cygwin 1.5). > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple