* Christopher Faylor (Sun, 20 May 2007 12:36:47 -0400) > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:45AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > >Dave Korn wrote: > >>I'm not sure exactly what Thorsten is looking for in his original > >>question, so I don't know if it's relevant here or not, but it might be > >>useful for a portable installation to have a way to detect the drive > >>letter so as to be able to (re)assign the mountpoints (e.g. from > >>Cygwin.bat) before starting up a shell or other cygwin app. USB stick > >>drive letters change very often... > > > >Yes, there is a very real need for that kind of adjustment in such a > >situation, but you'd have to do it using native/batch scripting since > >trying to start a bash shell with /usr pointing off into empty space > >will probably not end well. Since the question seemed to be looking > >for the POSIX form of the rootdir I assumed that the mount tables had > >already been frobbed. > > Except that he mentioned /cygdrive/? which doesn't require a root > directory. > > I assumed that he was actually looking for a way to figure out where he > was running from so that he could set up the mount table.
The mount table is already set from a batch (4NT) script. I can refer to that quite easily with something like "set [EMAIL PROTECTED],% _cmdspec]" and then using %usb. -- 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/
