RE: Mac, cygwin, flash
On Dec 27, 2007 12:53 AM, Barbara Shirtcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for me to acquire a working cygwin dist from here, from my speedy old powerbook G4? Cheers, Bar Are you looking for something that _runs_ on your Powerbook, or just the ability to DL cygwin to be installed on a Windows machine? If the former, you may want to look into MacPorts http://www.macports.org/ instead of cygwin. -- 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: Mac, cygwin, flash
No no no I just want to DL it to my Mac to put it onto a flash drive and run thence. I know how to download cygwin onto a Windows machine. I have no reason to run it on my Mac. Someone has written to me to suggest using PuTTy. I'll give that a shot when the device comes in the mail. Thanks, Bar Pete Kockritz writes: | | On Dec 27, 2007 12:53 AM, Barbara Shirtcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there a way for me to acquire a working cygwin dist from here, from | | my speedy old powerbook G4? | | Cheers, | Bar | | Are you looking for something that _runs_ on your Powerbook, or just the | ability to DL cygwin to be installed on a Windows machine? | | If the former, you may want to look into MacPorts | http://www.macports.org/ instead of cygwin. | | -- | 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/ | -- 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: Mac, cygwin, flash
On Dec 27, 2007 12:53 AM, Barbara Shirtcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for me to acquire a working cygwin dist from here, from my speedy old powerbook G4? Cheers, Bar I can imagine that Darwine could run the installer nicely. As to the feasibility of a portable Cygwin installation, I am not sure. Perhaps Google can help? http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ -Jevin Sweval -- 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: Mac, cygwin, flash
Thanks, Jevin. Unfortunately, I don't have an Intel Mac. Jevin Sweval writes: | On Dec 27, 2007 12:53 AM, Barbara Shirtcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there a way for me to acquire a working cygwin dist from here, from | my speedy old powerbook G4? | | Cheers, | Bar | | I can imagine that Darwine could run the installer nicely. As to the | feasibility of a portable Cygwin installation, I am not sure. Perhaps | Google can help? | | http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ | | -Jevin Sweval | | -- | 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/ | -- 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/
Mac, cygwin, flash
Hi gracious experts! Please don't flame me. I'm a mac user, but I used to use cygwin, back when I was a kid and didn't get to choose my operating system. Well, I have a 4 GB Flash drive coming in the mail (incredibly, it is the size of a half-smoked cigar), and I was wondering if I could justify my purchase by putting cygwin onto it so that I can use emacs and a latex processor on any desktop. I found the post describing how to put cygwin onto a flash drive (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01117.html), but this description requires a working installation on a windows machine. Unfortunately, the desktops to which I have access are feeble, and I would not want to spend 55 hours downloading and getting everything to work there. Is there a way for me to acquire a working cygwin dist from here, from my speedy old powerbook G4? Cheers, Bar -- Barbara Shirtcliff PhD Student Russian History University of Illinois at Chicago Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. --Samuel Johnson A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. --George Santayana -- 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/
