morgan gangwere wrote: > well, you could MOUNT the image and COPY the files over, but thats a > really tricky thing to do in cygwin (none of my attempts have worked)
It's "really tricky" because it's impossible. The mount command in Cygwin simply manipulates a table of path translation entries, e.g. "c:/cygwin/bin = /bin". It is not a mount command like you'd find in Linux, it cannot do a loopback mount or anything like that. Cygwin is not a kernel, it does not implement any filesystem drivers. If you want to mount an ISO image, you need to use a native Windows tool, like Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120%, and I'm sure countless others. Once the image is mounted as a drive letter you can of course add Cygwin mount entries to locate it where you want it in the POSIX filespace, but again that's just doing a glorified search/replace on the pathname, which is all the Cygwin mount table amounts to. Brian -- 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/
