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 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:51:20 -0800 From: Geoffrey Noer To: Earnie Boyd Cc: cygwin users Subject: Re: Help with installing Message-ID: <19990329195120.A29456@cygnus.com> References: <19990329203946.15996.rocketmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990329203946.15996.rocketmail@web125.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 12:39:46PM -0800 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote: [...] > Basically, because _I_ have to. At some point there was added a set of keys for > the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to control the defaults for the local machine and this > would allow consistency between multiple users while allowing each user to > control his set of keys via HKEY_CURRENT_USER. After this was added, I wasn't > able to use the `umount / && mount Z:\\ /' methods (in any combination of > commands) to change the mount point for root while a member of the administrator > group. > > NOTE: I haven't tried this with the current snapshots. It may very well be > fixed already. I have tested remounting slash with the current cygwin DLL snapshots and a new mount.exe binary. If you try to replace an existing mount (like slash), you will get the existing mount busy warning. By specifying the -f flag (force), mount will happily overwrite any existing mount point, including slash. Again, only in recent development snapshots. -- Geoffrey Noer Email: noer@cygnus.com Cygnus Solutions -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com