-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Dessent wrote: > 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/ > > thanks. I assumed Cygwin could handle mounting loopbacks, though I guess I was wrong.
just a thought, Morgan Gangwewre -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGW2uuCF9T/dUsmAgRAlUtAJ9jb/Fazqk/a/SJoDaABq1RoqoRjQCdGKGE pVvHx+mL+9SDxTCXa6ZA3K8= =r8m5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
