>>>>> Adam McCarthy writes: > Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:38:21 -0400 > > I really enjoy Cygwin and would love to have a portable copy on a > thumb drive. I use Cygwin all the time, and obviously I can't install > it on every computer I go on, especially since many are not mine. > > I saw many instructions on the web for doing it, but I wanted to see > if their were instructions that were "recommended", I know that likely > there will not be an official but I figured at least if it works. > > Is it fairly easy to install it on a thumb drive? I'm not worried if > it's hard or command line, because I've install Gentoo Linux before > and have much experience with command line, I just don't want it to > screw up current Cygwins on my machines. Most PCs I use it on, will > not have Cygwin, but perhaps I need to do something on a PC that > already has Cygwin, I don't want it to screw up the local Cygwin. > > Thanks Again > > Adam McCarthy
Hi, did you see the FAQ 2.20. How can I make my own portable Cygwin on CD? (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cd) and the recent threads on "Install cygwin in Win2K as nonadmin from CD make from WinXP" "How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access" ? Cheers 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/
