Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:52:47 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <104-592542181.20040616105247@familiehaase.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: invalid mounts after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3 In-Reply-To: <20040614162854.GA1438@coe.casa.cgf.cx> References: <20040530025210.GA790537@hpn5170x> <13-741545226.20040614172924@familiehaase.de> <20040614162854.GA1438@coe.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Christopher wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:29:24PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Hi Pierre, >> >>you wrote: >>> When you run setup, third screen, where you specify the root >>> directory. Does it have a final \ ? If so, remove it. >>> See also below. >> >>Unfortunately this is not possible if you use H: as root, you cannot >>continue, you must add the backslash. > This can't be true. I have used H: as a root myself without using this > erroneous setting. Hmmm, I tried after Pierres information that this backslash is the culprit (with the latest setup.exe). >>However, I use this always without problems since about two years now: > You're lucky then. That is an invalid entry in the mount table, apparently > put there by setup.exe. Wel, at least with cygwin-1.5.9 it seems to work. Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/