Odd mount and path problem

[Jim George]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthlanguage.com>
To: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle@yahoo.fr>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem


> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> 
> >>d:\cygwin\home on /home type system (binmode)
> >>\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
> >>\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
> >>
> > 
> > basic response is :
> > you miss the DOS drive letter in your mount points
> > and the / moint point looks wrong (maybe d:\cygwin ?):
> > D: on / type system (binmode)
> 
> 
> Excellent - that was the problem, although I really don't understand 
> why.  Once d:/ is mounted on /, why do I need to qualify all the other 
> mount points?
> 
> 
Did you get an answer to this Larry?

Jim


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