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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Portable Cygwin on a CD
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:52:47 +0200
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> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net


> at some point after starting up. I've tried any number of ways of 
> automating
> this to take place early in /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile (mount -f
> "$HOMEDRIVE" "/" or whatever, but HOMEDRIVE isn't known until it's mounted
> ...). The requirement for this line is basically that Cygwin needs to be
> told the drive letter of the CD drive. (Or, if Cygwin doesn't, 
> then system()
> calls from within the application certainly do.)

C:\Program\Cygwin\bin>cd | cut -c-3
C:\
C:\Program\Cygwin\bin> \
 cd | bash -c 'export CDROOT=`cut -c-3`;rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i'
...
$ set | grep CD    
CDROOT='C:\'

HTH ;-)

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden