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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
