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Re: Pushing out Cygwin installations
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:41:51PM -0500, Danko, Gary wrote:
>Okay let me get this straight. :)
>
>Got a plain vanilla install. Copy the Cygwin directory to the new server.
>Create the mount points and I am done?
>
>Do I need to copy HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions ???
>
>Oh, I tried to run mount.. Here's what happened.
>
>bash-2.04$ pwd
>/cygwin/bin
>bash-2.04$ ./mount
>Device Directory Type Flags
>bash-2.04$ ./mount d:\cygwin /
>./mount: /: Invalid argument
>bash-2.04$
Bash is a UNIX shell. '\' is a quoting character in bash.
So, your options are:
1) Don't run the command from bash.
2) Use a '/':
./mount d:/cygwin /
3) Double the backslashes:
./mount d:\\cygwin /
4) Quote the first argument:
./mount 'd:\cygwin' /
cgf
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