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Re: New install problems
- To: "Timothy I. McGinnis" <tmcginnis at synertechsystems dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: New install problems
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 06:18:44 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "Timothy I. McGinnis" <tmcginnis@synertechsystems.com> wrote:
> I'm new to cygwin, I come from a Unix background, so I am lost on windows.
>
> So please forgive my ignorance.
>
> I have tried to install the cygwin full.exe on both 95 and NT 4.0 SP4. I
> would like to set up cygwin so when I bring up the bash shell it maps my
> root to d:/unix. I believe I am following the Users Guide properly. After
> installing cygwin I start the bash shell and it comes up fine. I unmount
> root and remount it using "mount //d/unix /". It gives me the expected
> error message that / does not exist. I then exit out of bash and restart
> it. Now on the 95 box when I try to change to / I get the error message
> 'cd /: No such device'.
>
> On the NT 4.0 box I do the same thing and when I restart bash the cursor
> just sits there for a minute or so then it gives me a prompt. If I try to
> do anything it hangs for a minute or so then gives me a prompt.
>
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
Yep. The follow bash command should work:
Bash# cd /dir/containing/umount && ./umount / && ./mount 'd:\unix' /
The way you did it, Cygwin tries to resolve //d/unix to a host named d with a
shared directory named unix. While you're at it, check out my webpages.
=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cygwin Newbies, please visit
<http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>
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