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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:26:19 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: Steve Munson <stevebm AT sprynet DOT com>
Reply-To: Steve Munson <stevebm AT sprynet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: putting cygwin *installation* on CD
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Chad J McQuinn wrote:

>On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:56 AM, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:33:07 -0500, Chad J McQuinn wrote:
>>> I'm try to put a cygwin installation (not the installer; a full-blown
>>> installation) on CD. The basic idea is that I want to set up cygwin,
>>> put it on CD, and then by means of a batch file, have that CD act as a
>>> portable cygwin installation.
>>
>> Can you use IU's Cygwin-based XLiveCD?
>
>Unfortunately, it won't quite do what I want. I doesn't have tetex, 
>which is definitely one of my must-have packages.

Have you tried putting a blank CD-R in a CD-RW drive and formatting it for DirectCD? This makes the recordable CD look to Windows like a removable drive, and you can access it for reading and writing, just like a disk drive. Of course, when you delete or overwrite files, the original file contents still take up room on the CD-R, but they are no longer accessible. The advantage is that the files are not read only as they are on a CD-ROM. This preserves the file attributes, unlike recording to a read-only CD-R.

Just a thought.

Steve Munson


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