Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990329141843.00a03210@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:18:43 -0500 To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, Nirmal Vuppuluri From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Help with installing Cc: cygwin users In-Reply-To: <19990329191300.17720.rocketmail@send205.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:13 AM 3/29/99 -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Nirmal Vuppuluri wrote: >> Hi, >> I have just started setting up Cygwin's bash. I do the mounts and >> umounts as specified in the User's guide. But when I start Cygwin bash >> again after some time, I see that the mounts and umounts did not have any >> "persistent" effect. Its just like I am starting Cygwin bash the first >> time. I would like to know what I am doing wrong. > >I believe that you are using NT, is this correct? If so, you are a member of >the administrator group, is this correct? If yes, to both of these, then you'll >have to modify the registry data with regedit to modify the root path. You'll >find the key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions. Follow the >paths until you find the appropriate one and modify the value. If you do >`cygcheck -r' you'll have a list of the registry entries created/used by >cygwin. > >=== >- \\||// >-------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- >-- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- >----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > I answer yes to both of your queries but I never have had to do what you suggest to get mounts to work properly for any reason, although I'll admit that I've had Cygwin installed for a long time so maybe I'm missing something now. Can you explain why you think Nirmal needs to do this and what it gets around? Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 Wellesley, MA, 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com