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Re: cygwin not mount / when start bash


On 8/16/2011 4:14 AM, Nick Urbanik wrote:
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.

When you installed, did you pick "All Users" or "Just Me"? Also, please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines outlined at this link:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

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