New install problems

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "Timothy I. McGinnis" <tmcginnis@synertechsystems.com> wrote:
> I'm new to cygwin, I come from a Unix background, so I am lost on windows.
> 
> So please forgive my ignorance.
> 
> I have tried to install the cygwin full.exe on both 95 and NT 4.0 SP4.  I
> would like to set up cygwin so when I bring up the bash shell it maps my
> root to d:/unix.  I believe I am following the Users Guide properly.  After
> installing cygwin I start the bash shell and it comes up fine.  I unmount
> root and remount it using "mount //d/unix /".  It gives me the expected
> error message that / does not exist.  I then exit out of bash and restart
> it.  Now on the 95 box when I try to change to / I get the error message
> 'cd /: No such device'.
> 
> On the NT 4.0 box I do the same thing and when I restart bash the cursor
> just sits there for a minute or so then it gives me a prompt.  If I try to
> do anything it hangs for a minute or so then gives me a prompt.
> 
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
> 

Yep.  The follow bash command should work:

Bash# cd /dir/containing/umount && ./umount / && ./mount 'd:\unix' /

The way you did it, Cygwin tries to resolve //d/unix to a host named d with a
shared directory named unix.  While you're at it, check out my webpages.

=====
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
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