Re: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive
I used to run a portable version of cygwin from my usb drive -- and I confirm that it works. I never tried to use it on a system that already had cygwin installed. I used these instructions although the look like they haven't been updated since Feb 2005: http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/ -- Kevin Hilton -- 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: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive
One recommendation I have is to NOT run if from a flash drive if there is a hard drive install...it can fiddle with stuff that will make the hard drive installed not be correct. Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -Original Message- From: Adam McCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 7:38 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive 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 -- 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: 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: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive
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 I did not see it on the FAQ, I know I should of looked but I didn't think they would have an official answer, but I will defiantly look in to it. Thanks Again - Adam McCarthy -- 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/
