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Re: Running from CDROM on Win95
- To: cygwin67 at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: Running from CDROM on Win95
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:50:41 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20000808071843.19270.qmail@web6305.mail.yahoo.com>
> Can Cygwin 1.x be run from a CDROM? I don't mean the distribution
> cdrom -- I would be burning my own. Obviously /tmp would have to
> mounted to something writable, but could /usr, /lib and /etc be on
> a CD? Where's the mount-table stored?
The mount table is in the registry. Otherwise, as long as /tmp (and
maybe /usr/tmp and/or /var/tmp) is mounted to a writable hard drive,
you should be able to run cygwin off a cd-rom. The only thing that
might break is Insight, as the tcl DLLs don't understand the mount
table. We've always had that problem, but using a cd-rom just makes
the obvious solution less practical.
Note that you won't be able to change your passwd file or run setup
any more, as those are in /etc ;-)
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