From: Helge [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:12 AM > Hello, I have tried to set a variable in the windows registry for the mounting of cygwin directories. > This is to have the possibility to switch between different cygwin installations without changing the registry. > But is way don't work!! > > It seems that it is the Type REG_EXPAND_SZ that causes the error. > Is it possible that the Type REG_EXPAND_SZ is not right support by cygwin? > >I will switch between a local installation and a installion on a net drive and to change a environment variable is a easy way to do this job. > > thanks for help > helge
Do not edit the registry for cygwin. Use mount, umount, and regtool*. In this case, you will probably only need mount. Launch cygwin from a batch file that sets up the mount table before launching bash (or whatever shell you are using). See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#umount * regtool example: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html Good Luck. - Barry -- 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/
