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Re: Setup over a previous installation
- To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot org>
- Subject: Re: Setup over a previous installation
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:02:33 -0500
- Cc: "'cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <200003011857.KAA08874@cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:54:09PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote:
>My other concern is that the umount-mount sequence for changing the root
>directory only works from bash and not from the Windows command line. When
>using the windows command line to issue the (re)mount command, an automount
>occurs in cygwin1.dll. My current line of thought is that setup.exe will do
>a LoadLibrary on cygwin1.dll followed by an unmount-mount sequence and that
>this should suppress the automount that occurs at the Windows command
>prompt.
You can use the -f flag in newer versions of mount to force a remount of a directory.
mount -b -f c:\cygwin /
You could also just use the getmntent/mount/umount functions, if this is a C program.
I don't know if this helps or not...
cgf