KDE3 under cygwin having problems starting the startkde.bat

[Ralf Habacker]

> Hello,
>
> I've got the same problem and solved it by editing the registry.
> "mount" shows you the mount-modes: textmode or binmode.
> After setting all mode to binmode KDE runs.
> Changing the mode:
> Search in the registry of Windows (regedit.exe)  for "cygdrive flag"
> and change the all vakues to a (decimal:10).
>
Thanks for this hint.

Another (probably easier) seems to be in open a cmd shell and enter the
following:

$ cd <CYGWIN_ROOT>\bin
umount -s /
mount -s -b <CYGWIN_ROOT> /

where <CYGWIN_ROOT> is a placeholder for the real cygwin root path.

Can anyone check if this work ?

Regards

Ralf