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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:14:06 +0000
From:	Chris Jefferson <caj AT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Cut-down Cygwin on a USB Memory Stick?
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, zzapper wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi Y'All
>>
>>Anyone investigated putting a cutdown version of CygWin onto a memory
>>stick (128MB or bigger).
>>What would you need the dlls vim,find,grep,ls etc??
>>
>>zzapper (vim & cygwin & zsh)
>>    
>>
>
>Sure.  Google for "Cygwin on CD".  Some issues (mostly having to do with
>the read-onlyness of CDs) won't come up with the memory stick, others will
>(/etc/passwd contents, for example).  As for what's needed, here's a
>simple recipe:
>
>Step 1: Find all the programs you'd like to have, copy them to a directory
>on your hard drive.
>
>Step 2: Change to that directory and run "cygcheck *.exe".
>
>Step 3: Copy all the non-Windows DLLs listed in Step 2 into the directory.
>
>Step 4: Move the whole directory to the memory stick and rename it to "bin".
>
>  
>

Another minor point which I found useful for USB keying is to look up 
"upx"ing (available in cygwin, although the closed-source version gets 
better compression) all of the executables and dlls. you can get some 
fair reduction in space requirements and definatly if you use a USB 1.1 
device you'll probably find a speed improvement too.

Chris


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