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Article #4015Re: Mount cygwin root on Windows root
From: Keith Thompson
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:53
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:53
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Ben <bgold12@gmail.com> writes:
> Hey, I'm used to working with Windows (and using Command Prompt for my
> "shell"), but I've recently been switching to using cygwin and bash.
> The problem is, I really don't like having to go to /cygdrive/c to get
> the actual Windows root, and although I played a bit with setting the
> prefix to /c, I still would prefer to have the cygwin root "/"
> coincide with the Windows root "C:".
>
> Currently I have the cygwin installation on the root ("C:"), which is
> working perfectly, but I'd rather have the cygwin installation on C:
> \cygwin. I've tried doing that and mounting "C:" on "/", which seems
> to work, but it causes several bad side effects, like I can't get g++
> to work, and I can't view any man pages ("Warning: cannot open
> configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf"), etc. Does anyone have
> any suggestions for how I can get this to work? Thanks.
Take a look at question 2.4 of the Cygwin FAQ,
<http://www.cygwin.com/faq/>.
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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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