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In comp.unix.programmer Ben <bgold12@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently I have the cygwin installation on the root ("C:"), which is
> working perfectly, but I'd rather have the cygwin installation on C:

I don't know the answer to your question, but there is now a new cygwin
related group alt.comp.cygwin available on usenet. Ask your Usenet provider to
make the group alt.comp.cygwin available to you.

Regards,

Mark.

-- 
Mark Hobley
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Ben wrote:
> 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:".

You might be better to ask the Cygwin people direct - there's probably a 
mailing list.

> 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. 

You seem to want the best of both worlds...

Question is - why do you want Windows c:\ to map to Cygwin's / ? Is it 
because you have data files in c:\somedirectory and want to reference it 
as /somedirectory? If so, will a symlink do the trick?

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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In comp.unix.shell Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
> 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/>.

I wouldn't install Cygwin in C:\ because of that FAQ answer, but there
are some things you can do to avoid having to type /cygdrive/c all the
time.  One is that you can create an alias like this,

    alias cd-c='cd /cygdrive/c'

Another is that you can set the $CDPATH variable like this,

    export CDPATH=.:$HOME:/cygdrive/c

so that when you type "cd" followed by a directory name, bash will
search for that name first in the current directory, then in your $HOME
directory, then in /cygdrive/c.  I suppose you could also define a
variable, $C, like this,

    export C=/cygdrive/c

and then cd to directories under C:\ like this:

    cd $C/Program\ Files

I hadn't tried that last one before, but that works really well, because
it allows bash to do filename completion.  That is, if you type

    cd $C/Prog

and hit Tab, bash replaces that string on the command line with this
one:

    cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/

-- 
Gary Johnson