How to navigate to a directory in C:\ with cygwin?

Question

I'm trying to install PyQt4 so I can mess around with it. The installation guide said I had to install sip. The last step to installing sip is to use the make install command. Windows doesn't have that, so I looked it up and everything I saw said to install cygwin. So I did. But...sip is in C:\Python31\sip.

Can I run this from the cygwin command? If so...how would I do that?

or...

Can I run this from the normal windows command prompt? If so...how would I go about that?

Answer 1

Use:

cd /cygdrive/c

Answer 2

You already accepted an answer, but I just thought I'd mention that the following also works in Cygwin:

cd "C:\Foo"

I think the cd /cygdrive/c method is better, but sometimes it's useful to know that you can do this too.

Answer 3

I'll add something that helps me out a lot with cygwin. Whenever setting up a new system, I always do this

ln -s /cygdrive/c /c

Then you can do this in your shell

cd /c/Foo
cd /c/

Very handy.