Re: Win32 port of Debian ?
Michael Wood <wood@kingsley.co.za> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:31:48AM +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote:
> [snip]
> > Maybe I could setup some Webpages or we could discuss, how we could
> > organize the directory structure (you cannot use/create the /bin /usr
> > /home /var /lib in the root dir).
>
> Well, actually you can. That's just what Cygwin uses.
> You can either create C:\bin, C:\usr, C:\lib etc., or you can
> set up a sort of virtual root directory:
> / == C:\Cygwin\blah\
>
> and then make /etc /bin /lib etc. under that.
>
> Cygwin supports mounting directories on other directories, which
> is how the "virtual root" thing works. You just mount
> C:\Cygwin\blah as /. Of course this isn't quite like Unix, but
> it's sort of similar.
Yep. The install program could just ask where you wanted the root
directory (c:\debian, d:\debian, etc.). Cygwin programs would see
that as the root directory (/). They could still access the rest of
the DOS drives by mounting them or using the UNC naming hack
(eg. //c/).
Cheers,
- Jim
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