Re: Re: Cygwin portable bash

2009-09-28 Thread Andy Holt
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: RE: Re: Cygwin portable bash

2009-09-27 Thread Andy Holt
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

2009-09-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
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

2009-09-24 Thread Andy Holt
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