X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:16:55 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7b7f9d810805091638o58f21c3bhfd7eaa6875c44040@mail.gmail.com> References: <7b7f9d810805091638o58f21c3bhfd7eaa6875c44040@mail.gmail.com> From: "Stepp, Charles" To: "Adam McCarthy" , Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m4CFHhsg010900 One recommendation I have is to NOT run if from a flash drive if there is a hard drive install...it can fiddle with stuff that will make the hard drive installed not be correct. Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -----Original Message----- From: Adam McCarthy [mailto:zeroonetwothree@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 7:38 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive 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 -- 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/