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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:  RE:  Re: Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive
Date:  Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:09:45 -0000
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* Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:26:46 -0500)
> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:08 PM:
> > * Bodger (Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:16:06 -0800 (PST))
> >> How possible would it be to:
> >> 2) With the help of some crafty shell scripts, be available from most
> >> Windows boxes by plugging the thumb drive in and running the
> >> environment from there?
> > 
> > rem  Make cygwin mounts
> > mount -fu %~d0\cygwin     /
> > mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/bin /usr/bin
> > mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/lib /usr/lib
> > 
> > mkpasswd -lc > \cygwin\etc\passwd
> > mkgroup  -lc > \cygwin\etc\group
> 
> "%~d0" does not substitute for me on XP/cmd.  How's it supposed to work?

It works only in a batch file... (and the batch file has to be on the 
USB drive)

Thorsten


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