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Re: Newbie: W2K and Mounting problem.
- To: "'cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Newbie: W2K and Mounting problem.
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:51:59 -0400
- Cc: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- References: <EF53C29D0244D411A62A00508BAC6E5F71932F@npathmsx1.navipath.net>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:45:58PM -0400, Furmaniuk, Michael wrote:
>
> I've tried to figure it out and find a similar problem in the archives but
>couldn't. I just recently installed Cygwin on Windows 2000 and it works
>well, however, when I try to mount one of my other drives and following the
>suggested formats such as "mount d:\ /d" all I get is the usage information
>on the mount command. I've created the /d directory and even tried using
>the -su tags but I never get the mount to work. Am I missing another tag or
>some syntax error?
Both the archives and the FAQ should state that if you are using backslash
style paths in a bash shell, you have to either do:
mount d:\\ /d
or
mount d:/ /d
This was actually mentioned within the last couple of days.
David, is this in the FAQ? I couldn't find anything obvious.
cgf
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