Re: Cygwin portable bash

On 09/29/2009 12:51 AM, Andy Holt wrote: ok, all apologies. I am familiar with mount, but if there is something extra special about how it works w/in cygwin I will check the Users Guide. I appreciate the direction, sorry I misunderstood (thought he was just telling me to 'man mount' and I felt th

Re: Re: Cygwin portable bash

ok, all apologies. I am familiar with mount, but if there is something extra special about how it works w/in cygwin I will check the Users Guide. I appreciate the direction, sorry I misunderstood (thought he was just telling me to 'man mount' and I felt that would be a waste of time since I am

Re: Cygwin portable bash

Reformatted. On 09/27/2009 10:51 PM, Andy Holt wrote: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: I'm not aware that this has been mentioned before in this thread, but I'd worry that there is no mount table. (I assume that this is cygwin 1.5.) See the documentat

Re: RE: Re: Cygwin portable bash

Well, I'm not so sure that that is really a problem... I looked for fstab but couldn't even find one so I'm not sure where the mount table is specified. BUT I don't think that has anything to do with my current problem. I need to 'log in' to bash first. then I'll worry about the cygdrive mount

RE: Re: Cygwin portable bash

I'm not aware that this has been mentioned before in this thread, but I'd worry that there is no mount table. (I assume that this is cygwin 1.5.) See the documentation on mount (hint: the -m option might be especially useful) or just run setup, clicking through it, on the derivative machines.

Re: Re: Cygwin portable bash

I'm in a similar situation with about 10 different machines, some of which come and go very quickly. I rarely use more than one computer at a time, as most of them are in remote installations and not accessible physically. In order to save time installing cygwin and other software, my goal was

Re: Cygwin portable bash

Hi, If you have a cygwin application running on machine A and update the installation on machine B, you might run into problems when dropbox tries to copy the files to machine A. I did almost the same with Windows Live Mesh. Now I am only synchronizing my home directory. Cheers, Morten On Thu, S

Re: Cygwin portable bash

Andy Holt writes: > Hey everyone, > > I installed cygwin on my laptop (domain andy-laptop), and it works > great from here. I installed in a special folder ("My Dropbox") which > uses the free dropbox service online to synchronize the folder accross > multiple machines (my other machine is andy-d

Cygwin portable bash

Hey everyone, I installed cygwin on my laptop (domain andy-laptop), and it works great from here. I installed in a special folder ("My Dropbox") which uses the free dropbox service online to synchronize the folder accross multiple machines (my other machine is andy-desktop). On the desktop mac