X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:51:15 -0400 From: "Newton Robinson" Subject: Re: SanDisk U3 To: "Svend Sorensen" , Message-id: <002b01c6f7cf$acf69550$0401a8c0@newton1> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=response Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <001101c6f77d$bb1f2130$0401a8c0@newton1> <7ff9c2a10610241046o16922dadnac8d7e4de62f5fbb@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 I see your point. Has anyone created a distribution for a Flash Drive? Has anyone created a start script that will remount for any Windows system? I have seen a couple older posts talking about compressed executables (upx I think), but no follow-ups. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Svend Sorensen" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:46 PM Subject: Re: SanDisk U3 > On 10/24/06, Newton Robinson wrote: >> >> I have looked at the apps that are available and most are not something I >> am >> interested in, however there were a few utilities such as PuTTY that did >> interest me. I was wondering if anyone was looking into a minimal CYGWIN >> installation for U3. I think it would be great to have BASH, text >> processing, and other critical tools on the flash drive. >> > > I don't see the benefit of U3. You can put the standalone PuTTY > binaries on ANY flash drive. You can also install Cygwin to a flash > drive. Making it portable takes a few extra steps (basically you set > up a bat file which adds the Cygwin mounts to the new computer). > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/