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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:58:59 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: zzapper cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cut-down Cygwin on a USB Memory Stick? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, zzapper wrote: > Hi Y'All > > Anyone investigated putting a cutdown version of CygWin onto a memory > stick (128MB or bigger). > What would you need the dlls vim,find,grep,ls etc?? > > zzapper (vim & cygwin & zsh) Sure. Google for "Cygwin on CD". Some issues (mostly having to do with the read-onlyness of CDs) won't come up with the memory stick, others will (/etc/passwd contents, for example). As for what's needed, here's a simple recipe: Step 1: Find all the programs you'd like to have, copy them to a directory on your hard drive. Step 2: Change to that directory and run "cygcheck *.exe". Step 3: Copy all the non-Windows DLLs listed in Step 2 into the directory. Step 4: Move the whole directory to the memory stick and rename it to "bin". The above doesn't address the issue of configuration files (which vary with the individual programs). I suggest examining the structure of the packages and reading the READMEs (both package and Cygwin-specific) carefully. You can also view the "setup.ini" file in setup's local package cache directory and, if you see a "requires:" line on one of the packages containing the program you need, examine the required package to see what parts of it are necessary. To find out which package a file belongs to, use "cygcheck -f filename". To list the contents of an (installed) package, use "cygcheck -l filename". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/