On 05/06/2010 08:11 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
Maybe I remember incorrectly about the general discouragement then. Since no one else has piped up to support my assertion, I rescind the comment happily. :-) -Jeremy -- 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
