At 08:17 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote: >On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:51:01 -0400, Larry Hall typed: >> At 10:43 PM 4/12/2004, you wrote: >>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:18:09 -0400, "Christopher Faylor" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:06:27PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico >>>> wrote: >>>>> I installed Cygwin today at work onto a network drive. I >>>>> added >>>>> the >>>>> cygwin bin to my path and all was well. I then added the >>>>> path to >>>>> a >>>>> coworker's machine, but it failed miserably. Then I >>>>> remembered >>>>> that >>>>> there were some registry entries for mounting that needed to >>>>> be >>>>> installed. >>>> >>>> The tool you need is mount. >>>> >>>> Just typing "mount" will show you how your mount table is laid >>>> out. >>>> >>>> Typing "mount -m" will show you the commands to recreate the >>>> mount >>>> table on another drive (assuming consistent drive lettering). >>>> >>>> Even better, typing "man mount" will show you how to use mount. >>> >>> How about an FAQ entry: >>> >>> How do I install Cygwin to share over a network? >>> >>> Having more than one person to be able to access a single shared >>> instance of Cygwin it is not much different than doing a local >>> install: >>> >>> 1) Install to a network drive. Make sure the the drive you pick >>> will have the same drive letter for everyone. >>> 2) On the machine you used for the install, add the DOS path to >>> the cygwin bin to PATH >>> 3) Fire up a shell and type >>> mount -m > remount.sh >>> 4) On every other user's computer, just add the cygwin bin to the >>> PATH, execute remount.sh and give them a shortcut to cygwin.bat >> >> >> We try to limit FAQ entries to those that are frequently asked. >> This one >> comes up but only once in a while. The idea is if the FAQ becomes >> to full >> of "stuff", it will be too hard for anyone to use. So we try to >> keep it >> at the "manageable" level by using the axiom above. This would be a >> reasonable thing to add to the Users Guide IMO. If you're up to >> it, skim >> through and see if you can see a good spot to add it. If you can >> create >> a patch, I'm sure this will get included. >> > >Well, I fired up cvs and tried to grab src/winsup/doc. I ended up with the whole >system somehow - thank goodness we are not up on dialup. > >I figured out what needed modification and made the mods. I then tried firing up the >build system to see if I didn't screw things up. ./configure seemed to work ok, but >make didn't - no db2html. I searched all the source code (since I had it anyway) but >didn't find any files named like db2html nor did I find any entries in any Makefiles >to build it. > >Is there a single search that can be done to figure out in what package db2html might >be, so I can download and continue?
This is part of docbook but unfortunately there is no Cygwin package for docbook (at least not yet, other than the DTD and style-sheets). So you'll need to grab docbook-tools (http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
