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Re: portable install on usb flash drive?
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Dick Repasky <rrepasky at lack dot ucs dot indiana dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:20:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: portable install on usb flash drive?
- References: <slrnbjg68a.ett.rrepasky@lack.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Dick Repasky wrote:
I'd like to install cygwin on a usb flash drive so that I can plug the drive
into any windows box and have cygwin available to me. The question is: will
this work? My concern is not having registry keys in place on machines into
which I plug in the flash drive. Will that be a problem?
Depends on what you install. You won't get any services for free.
You'll also need to update /etc/passwd and /etc/group to reflect the
current users and their SIDs on each system. Then you want to set
up your mounts via 'mount'. But yes, it will work just fine.
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