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RE: mount woes


At 11:23 AM 5/12/97 +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote something like this:
>Jeff Deifik wrote:
>> I wish to mount d: / since my NT partition is there, and I
>> installed beta-18 there.
>
>> When I type mount, I get what I assume the defaults are, which are:
>> Device           Directory           Type        Flags
>> \\.\tape1:       /dev/st1            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
>> \\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
>> \\.\b:           /dev/fd1            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
>> \\.\a:           /dev/fd0            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
>> c:               /                   native      no-mixed,text!=binary
>> 
>> I would prefer not using the registry editor if possible to fix this.
>> 
>
>No way to remount "/" with mount command:-( Use regedit.
>
>-- 
>Sergey Okhapkin
>Moscow, Russia
>Looking for a job.
>

Ahhh, but you can!  Just go to a bash prompt and umount / -- then mount d: /

Should work without any problems.  If it does give you a bit of grief, try
mounting d:\cygnus\whatever\bin /bin from a cmd.exe prompt, then go to a
bash prompt and umount /

Jon

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