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On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>On 5/6/2010 3:36 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:22:39PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>> Please bear in mind that what you are attempting to do is not really
>>> supported, so don't be surprised if you don't get a bunch of help.
>> 
>> I don't see why this wouldn't be supported actually.  If the 32/64 bit
>> systems have similar setups it should just work.
>
>The method being used here is essentially the same as installing Cygwin
>onto a USB drive and taking that from system to system.  Yeah, it should
>work, especially now for Cygwin 1.7, but it has historically been
>discouraged.  If that's not considered an issue anymore, so much the
>better. :-)

Since I've been doing something similar for about ten years or so I'm
pretty sure that I haven't discouraged multi-booting.  At one point I
had the same copy of Cygwin running on Windows 95/98/NT3.5/NT4/2000.

cgf

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