X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Martin Fischer Subject: Re: How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:07:16 +0100 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4811ABF0 DOT 3040707 AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Shakespeare: "O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast." -- Sonnet 23 User-Agent: Emacs Gnus X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 >>>>> Fergus writes: > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:01:20 +0100 > >>> ... but was stopped by the necessity to perform >>> the mount command with admin rights. > > ... Can you say where it breaks down, for you? Hi Fergus, thank you for your response. It was three month ago, when I tried your recipee, so my remembrance migth be a little vague. I don't have a Cygwin USB stick available at the moment to reproduce the problem I encountered instantly. But I will sure try it again as soon as possible. AFAIR: - I wanted to use / test the Cygwin installation from my USB stick working on W2K under a restricted account (i.e. no admin rigths) - A cygwin installation existed on one of the hard disks which had been performed as admin for all accounts on that system. - Trying to unmount the existing cygwin drives, I was told not to have the needed admin rigths. I'll be back Martin -- parozusa at web dot de -- 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/