RE: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: cygx
> Subject: RE: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> 
> > You can use mount utility to change mount points, there is no need
> to
> > reinstall everything...
> 
> Right.  Although, rerunning setup.exe doesn't install anything if your
> installation is already up to date.  I suggest setup.exe because it is
> so
> simple.
> 
> On the other hand, I can't come up with an exact comand line sequence
> that
> could be used to change the mounts from textmode to binmode on every
> computer.  Don't you have to 'umount' each textmode mount then 'mount'
> them
> again using binmode?

Right! umount and mount with -b option

Suhaib

> 
> Harold
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:46 PM
> > To: 'Harold Hunt'; 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: RE: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> >
> >
> >
> > You can use mount utility to change mount points, there is no need
> to
> > reinstall everything... however, I also sometimes suggest rerun the
> > setup.exe because some of the users created more problems or did not
> know
> > how to use mount.exe....
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:35 PM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: RE: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> > >
> > > I wonder if he actually reinstalled or if he was using setup.exe
> to
> > > fix the
> > > mount table, as I describe at:
> > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-error-
> font-
> > > eof
> > >
> > > Does that seem like a good way to change the mount table mode?  It
> is
> > > the
> > > simplest method that I have seen so far...
> > >
> > > Harold
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> > > Christopher
> > > > Faylor
> > > > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:12 PM
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > > Subject: Re: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:07:10PM -0500, Annette and Frankie
> Stone
> > > wrote:
> > > > >How does this look?  I re-installed cygwin.
> > > > >
> > > > >bash-2.05$ mount
> > > > >c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
> > > > >c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
> > > > >c:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
> > > > >c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
> > > > >d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
> > > >
> > > > Gawd, there is no need to reinstall cygwin to change a mount
> option!
> > > >
> > > > cgf