X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:08:00 -0000 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <7347684.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 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 * Bodger (Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:16:06 -0800 (PST)) > How possible would it be to: > > 1) Install a Cygwin environment into a Thumbdrive, including /home, /usr > etc. Just install it (or copy it from an existing installation). > 2) With the help of some crafty shell scripts, be available from most > Windows boxes by plugging the thumb drive in and running the environment > from there? rem Make cygwin mounts mount -fu %~d0\cygwin / mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/bin /usr/bin mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/lib /usr/lib mkpasswd -lc > \cygwin\etc\passwd mkgroup -lc > \cygwin\etc\group Thorsten -- 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/