Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/05/10/06:17:47
>>>>> 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
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