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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:10:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin mounts
To: "McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney AT roper DOT com>,
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--- "McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney AT roper DOT com> wrote:
> I'm starting to explore the possibility of using Cygwin's "mount" facility.
> It looks like an elegant solution to several problems.  But there is one
> question I haven't seen discussed here: what happens if you already _have_
> an existing directory structure with /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local, /etc, etc.,
> and things in them?
> 
> I have a variety of non-Cygwin Unix tools, in a Unix style directory
> hierarchy.  I'd prefer to keep distributions seperate, but it appears that
> blending them will be forced, unless I'm missing something basic.
> 

You've missed something basic.  Leave the cygwin related tools in a directory
under cygwin for example and use the umount and mount programs to remount the
root to the cygwin directory.  More detail at the link in the sig.

> Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.

You're welcome,
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

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