RE: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive

2008-05-12 Thread Stepp, Charles
-Original Message- From: Adam McCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 7:38 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive I really enjoy Cygwin and would love to have a portable copy on a thumb drive. I use Cygwin all the time, and ob

Re: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Hilton
I used to run a portable version of cygwin from my usb drive -- and I confirm that it works. I never tried to use it on a system that already had cygwin installed. I used these instructions although the look like they haven't been updated since Feb 2005: http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/sof

Re: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive

2008-05-10 Thread Adam McCarthy
> 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" I did n

Re: Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive

2008-05-10 Thread Martin Fischer
> 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. > >

Installing Cygwin with a USB thumb drive

2008-05-09 Thread Adam McCarthy
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