Re: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:22:54PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
>
>> -----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

Just use the mount -f option:

mount -f -b c:\cygwin /

I realize that this is Windows and that everyone loves pointy clicky but
having people rerun setup.exe seems like total overkill to me.

cgf