Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00ae01c26986$805651b0$5300a8c0@bowsher.foo> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Rafal Kedziorski" , References: <3D99BB1A.5A548617@polonium.de> Subject: Re: cygwin on removable media ... Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:57:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 From: "Rafal Kedziorski" > I have small problem. I'm using cygwin with postgresql on w2k. It's > possible to install cygwin on removable media (iomega disk, CD, ..) so > that I can make small demontrations on every PC? not everyone can or > will install the software on his own computer. It's certainly possible, but you will need to make special arrangements for the mount table, which cygwin expects to find in the registry. The sophistication of the solution could vary from batch files and regedit .reg files, to a small C program which determines which drive letter it is running from and acts accordingly. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/