Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:51:59 -0400 To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" Cc: David Starks-Browning Subject: Re: Newbie: W2K and Mounting problem. Message-ID: <20001012155159.A22871@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" , David Starks-Browning References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from MFurmaniuk@NaviPath.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:45:58PM -0400 On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:45:58PM -0400, Furmaniuk, Michael wrote: > > I've tried to figure it out and find a similar problem in the archives but >couldn't. I just recently installed Cygwin on Windows 2000 and it works >well, however, when I try to mount one of my other drives and following the >suggested formats such as "mount d:\ /d" all I get is the usage information >on the mount command. I've created the /d directory and even tried using >the -su tags but I never get the mount to work. Am I missing another tag or >some syntax error? Both the archives and the FAQ should state that if you are using backslash style paths in a bash shell, you have to either do: mount d:\\ /d or mount d:/ /d This was actually mentioned within the last couple of days. David, is this in the FAQ? I couldn't find anything obvious. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com