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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:01:45 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: zzapper Subject: Re: Cut-down Cygwin on a USB Memory Stick? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, 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). [snip] Umm, one *very* important issue I forgot to mention (although it probably would come up in the referenced threads) is interaction with an existing Cygwin installation. Be careful to not trash that. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/