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Running Cygwin on Different Drive etters
- From: Ralph Hempel <rhempel at bmts dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:58:35 -0400
- Subject: Running Cygwin on Different Drive etters
I've got a clean minimal install of Cygwin 1.7 on a USB
stick, and I'd like to be able to use that Cygwin install
no matter what the actual drive letter is that is assigned
to the stick.
So far, I've modified cygwin.bat with this to get the drive
letter of the stick:
SETLOCAL
FOR /F %%D in ("%CD%") DO SET CYGDRIVE=%%~dD
chdir %CYGDRIVE%\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
ENDLOCAL
%CYGDRIVE% ends up with the drive letter and colon, which is
useful, but then when we run cygwin.bat...
...it does not quite work - bash complains it cannot create /tmp
because the original drive letter was encoded into a number of
files under /etc, including:
/etc/fstab
And these files assume that the windows system files are under
c:\WINNT\system32.....
/etc/hosts
/etc/networks
/etc/protocols
/etc/services
So, my question is:
Would it be possible to allow an environment variable to be part
of an fstab entry?
Cheers, Ralph