Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: From: "Christopher Jones" To: Ross Smith , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: Inetutils and mount points Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:44:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BFE03D.C49B83BA" ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFE03D.C49B83BA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > The problem is that I can't figure out *how* to change all my mount > points to system. I tried doing it by hand, and ended up screwing up > my Cygwin system so badly I had to delete and reinstall Cygwin from > scratch to get it working again. The problem basically seems to be > that, once you've unmounted the three original mount points > (/, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib), everything stops working and you can't > remount them again. Pretty simple... just make the system mount points before removing the user mount points. Brian ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFE03D.C49B83BA Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" RE: Inetutils and mount points

> The problem is that I can't figure out *how* to change all my mount
> points to system. I tried doing it by hand, and ended up screwing up
> my Cygwin system so badly I had to delete and reinstall Cygwin from
> scratch to get it working again. The problem basically seems to be
> that, once you've unmounted the three original mount points
> (/, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib), everything stops working and you can't
> remount them again.

Pretty simple... just make the system mount points before removing the user mount points.

Brian

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