Re: Using cygwin with a dual boot operating system

[Jeremy Bopp <jeremy at bopp dot net>]

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

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