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Re: Where to install gnu-win32...

To: Charles G Waldman <cgw at pgt dot com>
Subject: Re: Where to install gnu-win32...
From: Dennis Newbold <dnewbold at ivs dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:27:36 -0700
CC: ALI RON <ALIR at STELNJ dot COM>, "'GNU-win32 Mailing List'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com'" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
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Charles G Waldman wrote:

> You can't fix the mount tables (AFAIK) from within "bash" because the
> filesystems are already mounted...

On the contrary.  I was in the same situation.  And what I did was:

     umount /
     mount //D /

I was a little surprised that I could umount /, but it seemed to work OK.

Dennis
dnewbold@ivs.com

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