Re: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive
Adam McCarthy writes: Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:38:21 -0400 I really enjoy Cygwin and would love to have a portable copy on a thumb drive. I use Cygwin all the time, and obviously I can't install it on every computer I go on, especially since many are not mine. I saw many instructions on the web for doing it, but I wanted to see if their were instructions that were recommended, I know that likely there will not be an official but I figured at least if it works. Is it fairly easy to install it on a thumb drive? I'm not worried if it's hard or command line, because I've install Gentoo Linux before and have much experience with command line, I just don't want it to screw up current Cygwins on my machines. Most PCs I use it on, will not have Cygwin, but perhaps I need to do something on a PC that already has Cygwin, I don't want it to screw up the local Cygwin. Thanks Again Adam McCarthy Hi, did you see the FAQ 2.20. How can I make my own portable Cygwin on CD? (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cd) and the recent threads on Install cygwin in Win2K as nonadmin from CD make from WinXP How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access ? Cheers Martin -- parozusa at web dot de -- 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/
Re: How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access
Fergus writes: Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:01:20 +0100 ... but was stopped by the necessity to perform the mount command with admin rights. ... Can you say where it breaks down, for you? Hi Fergus, thank you for your response. It was three month ago, when I tried your recipee, so my remembrance migth be a little vague. I don't have a Cygwin USB stick available at the moment to reproduce the problem I encountered instantly. But I will sure try it again as soon as possible. AFAIR: - I wanted to use / test the Cygwin installation from my USB stick working on W2K under a restricted account (i.e. no admin rigths) - A cygwin installation existed on one of the hard disks which had been performed as admin for all accounts on that system. - Trying to unmount the existing cygwin drives, I was told not to have the needed admin rigths. I'll be back Martin -- parozusa at web dot de -- 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/
How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access (was: Install cygwin in Win2K as nonadmin...)
Thorsten Kampe writes: Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:06:02 +0200 * Paul Domaskis (Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:47:16 -0400) I will be using a standalone Win2K machine on which I will likely not have admin access. Will this be a problem, if I choose to install only for the account of interest? No, I use that version exclusively on my machines (because I run Cygwin from my USB stick). Hi, I tried running Cygwin from USB stick following the instructions of Fergus Bonhard for CDs analogously (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01117.html referred to in the FAQ), but was stopped by the necessity to perform the mount command with admin rights. What is your solution in general and with respect to that detail ? Cheers Martin -- parozusa at web dot de -- 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/
