Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, KARL BOTTS!

> 2) I always have cygdrive-prefix set to /, so that I can do, e.g. "cd /c".
> But when you reinstall cygwin, you must do it again with "mount -c".  And then
> immediately do "mount -m > /etc/fstab", so that it sticks.  Then, you should
> patch up the symlinks in /etc/{hosts,services,couple-more}; find them with
> readlink.  There are some more in some fonts dir, but I ignore those: don't
> care.

You can supply fstab and nsswitch.conf in advance of a new install, I presume.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, July 1, 2016 09:32:44

Sorry for my terrible english...


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