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 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 12:19:37 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: axel@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de Subject: Re: Problems with root directory of cygwin Message-ID: <20010203121937.B32020@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, axel@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from axel@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:08:46PM +0100 On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:08:46PM +0100, Axel Kowald wrote: >Hi, > >I just installed (with setup.exe) the latest version of cygwin on my NT >machine. Evrything went fine except for one small problem. > >It seems that cygwin thinks that the directory where I installed it, >c:\Programme\cygwin, is the root directory and not c:\. This is how Cygwin works. You chose the directory that is to be considered root when you installed the product. Read the documentation on the mount command for info on how to set your own mounts. The documentation for this is on the web site http://cygwin.com/ . cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple