Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Dick Repasky Subject: Re: portable install on usb flash drive? Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <000701c36095$681f9640$6fc82486 AT medschool DOT dundee DOT ac DOT uk> X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) > PS. Whoops, by flash drive I thought you meant one of those 10G items about > the size of a cigarette packet. Maybe you mean the thing about the size of a > cigarette with a 16M or 32M capacity? I think it will be a tight fit to cram > what you want into /bin/. Yes, it's more the size of a large cigar butt, but it's one of those. The capy is 256 MB, and it will contain things that I want under windows and also things that I want under linux. I realize that X is probably too big and can live without it. What I really want are the gnu utilities. Thanks to you both for replying. This project sounds doable with a pleasant amount of work. Dick -- 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/