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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:41:55 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin without installing
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:37:57AM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>I'm not sure just where the CD is coming into place here.  Are you
>considering creating a CD to contain a runable snapshot of cygwin so you
>don't have to install cygwin on a particular PC?  If the answer is yes,
>then my answer is yes it can be done.  I've done it with B20 and hope to
>do it again with a more recent snapshot.
>
>It gets a little trickey.  You can't use symbolic links on the CD medium
>because the ISO9660 standard does not support the notion of "system
>file" attributes.  You have to handle it using mounts.

Cygwin doesn't use the system file attribute anymore.

cgf

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