From: luc.tanguay@Bell.ca (TANGUAY, LUC) Subject: Re: Blatant FAQ about mount points 15 May 1998 14:42:36 -0700 Message-ID: <355AF46E.4A012DE7.cygnus.gnu-win32@bell.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Edward Avis wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I've read the entire FAQ and I still don't understand > how to mount my root filesystem in binary mode. > ... > I've looked at the registry with a view to changing the mount points > by hand, but they appear in several different places, and always under > "b15.0". > There are default mount points in the registry beside having user specific ones. The default mounts are in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL Setup\b15.0\mounts". For me, / is entry 00. The trick is to change it there (from text to binary for example) then delete your user mount point in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL Setup\b15.0\mounts". For me, / is entry 0B (it should be different for you). THe next time you execute "mount", the default mount point for / should be copied into your specific one. Hope this help, Luc. -- Luc Tanguay, ing. Bell Canada Recherche et génie logiciel/Software Engineering & Research 1050 Beaver Hall, 2e étage/2nd floor Montréal (Québec) H2Z 1S4, Canada Tél./phone: (514) 786-6440 mailto:Luc.Tanguay@bell.ca - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".