X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:14:07 +1000 From: Nick Urbanik To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: cygwin not mount / when start bash Message-ID: <20110816081407.GD18660@nick.optusnet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Dear Folks, I'm running cygwin on Windows XP. I do not have administrator access to this machine. When I start cygwin.bat, the / directory is not mounted, so /bin/sh does not exist, so not much works. How do I mount this? Does it depend on write access to the Windows registry? My attempts to make the mount have failed: mount -s c:\cygdrive / mount: /: Invalid argument All suggestions welcome. There's not much I can use this corporate desktop for without a working cygwin. -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org 808-71011 nick DOT urbanik AT optusnet DOT com DOT au GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 I disclaim, therefore I am. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple