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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:36:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Dick Repasky <rrepasky AT lack DOT ucs DOT indiana DOT edu>
To: Chad J McQuinn <chadmcquinn AT insightbb DOT com>
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Subject: Re: putting cygwin *installation* on CD
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Chad,

Check out the following instructions for building a cygwin cd
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01117.html.  They were used to 
build xlivecd.

Dick

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, 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?
>
> It does look good, and I wasn't aware of it. Thanks for the link. 
> Unfortunately, it won't quite do what I want. I doesn't have tetex, which is 
> definitely one of my must-have packages.
>
> However, it does look like they got the symlinks to work on the cd, so if I 
> can figure how to do that myself, I'm set. I don't see anything in their docs 
> that indicates how they constructed the CD image though.
>
> -Chad
>
>
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Dick Repasky
Bioinformatics Support
UITS Cubicle 101.08
Indiana University
USA

rrepasky AT indiana DOT edu

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