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/
Re: How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access
... but was stopped by the necessity to perform the mount command with admin rights. Hi, I use Cygwin the whole time from a mobile drive on home, work and other people's machines none of which have Cygwin installed (but they could have). The principles are the same as for CD-bound systems but with much more flexibility (size and write-ability). I'm afraid I have never found any difficulty using it on ancient W98 machines, and on machines running XP up to SP3 (and even Vista, now with SP1) but have never knowingly tried it on W2K. A big chunk of the startup (.cmd or .bat) file is devoted to preserving any pre-existing mounts and if you don't need to do this the startup file is very brief and straightforward (isn't it? in hundreds of contexts on different machines I suppose I could even now be missing some obvious difficulty) as follows (where h: is your USB drivename): @h:\bin\mount -buf h:/bin /usr/bin @h:\bin\mount -buf h:/lib /usr/lib @h:\bin\mount -buf h:/ / @h:\bin\mount -bufc / @set SHELL=/bin/bash @set HOME=/home/user # OR WHATEVER YOUR $HOME IS @start /wait h:\bin\bash @set HOME= @set SHELL= This script can be rendered considerably more sophisticated but this would be a good starting point if you are bug-hunting. Can you say where it breaks down, for you? Fergus -- 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
Martin Fischer wrote: Thorsten Kampe writes: * 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). 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 ? I don't actually do this. I was just remarking on the coolness that it could be done (by Thorsten). See his follow-up to my expression of Wow. -- 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/
