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Re: Changing cygwin directory


On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Pierre Mallard wrote:

> >P.S. In the future, please honor the Reply-To...
> Which means ?

It means the "Reply-To:" header, which the mailer should recognize as the
preferred e-mail address to send the reply to (see RFC 822, especially
section 4.4.4).

> Anyway, this does not appear to be enough to makes
> cygwin behaves correctly I've tried to set also /bin
> and /lib but still he does not resolve automaticly
> command path...

It was an example.  You should alter *all* of your mounts that way.
I'm a bit concerned that your mount table was empty initially...  Did you
by any chance play with the registry?  You shouldn't.
	Igor

> --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> a écrit?:
> > 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 at cs dot nyu dot 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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