Setup and UNC names

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:13:32PM +0200, Gunnar Norling wrote:
>
> --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
>skrev: > At 02:57 PM 8/22/2000, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> 
>> >It is for setup, because it sets up the initial
>> mount table, which
>> >really needs drive letters.  I'm pretty sure setup
>> won't like UNC
>> >paths; I don't know if you can use them in the
>> mount table.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, you can use UNC paths in the mount table. 
>
>Yes :-) I tried it as well. I first installed Cygwin
>using a mapped disk (F:). Then I manually altered the
>mount table in the registry to the UNC name I want to
>use. 

There is no reason to edit the registry by hand.  Cygwin's mount program
understands UNC paths.  I rely on this quite heavily.

cgf

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