Changing cygwin directory

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Pierre,

Read "man mount" -- the first path is supposed to be a Windows path, not
POSIX.  Try
 mount -f -s -b "d:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
and the like.
	Igor
P.S. In the future, please honor the Reply-To...

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Pierre Mallard wrote:

> Thanx to u,
> I did your command but it didn't help a lot...
> The problem is that I'd like to avoid using a setup
> again cause there are things I installed wich are not
> included in it and I have no more the src...
> (Moreover I'm not sure to have the complete cygwin
> package here...)
>
> If I only do ./mount -m it does not output anything at
> all.... !!
> Means no system mount no ??
> Ok I can force it :
> Now I have :
> mount -f -s -b "/cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
> mount -f -s -b "/cygdrive/d/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
> (mounted manually with :
> mount /cygdri.../bin /usr/bin
> mount /cygdri.../lib /usr/lib
> )
>
> Well this didn't help for the moment....
> Maybe I shoul put some other mounting point ...
> What should I do more then ?
> ps : I didn't use eval , it seems working without I'm
> in bash mode..
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Pierre
> --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> a écrit :
> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Pierre Mallard wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I was used to have cygwin at C:
> > > And I'd like to move it to d:,
> > > What are the op I must do in order to make it
> > works?
> > > I've already change the cygwin.bat but still it
> > can't
> > > run properly :
> > > Here is what it prompt (after moving cygwin
> > directory
> > > to d: and changing cygwin.bat file):
> > > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please
> > create!
> > > bash-2.05b$
> > >
> > > He can't find sh, ls,... and I didn't succeed in
> > > trying to find some c: text in cygwin directory...
> > > Thanx for help
> > > Regards
> > > Pierre
> >
> > Pierre,
> >
> > You forgot to update your mount table.  Try running
> > the following from a
> > bash session:
> >
> > cd /cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin
> > eval "`./mount -m | ./sed 's/c:/d:/i'`"
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > 	Igor
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