putting cygwin *installation* on CD

[Dick Repasky]

Chad,

Check out the following instructions for building a cygwin cd
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01117.html.  They were used to 
build xlivecd.

Dick

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Chad J McQuinn wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:56 AM, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:33:07 -0500, Chad J McQuinn wrote:
>>> I'm try to put a cygwin installation (not the installer; a full-blown
>>> installation) on CD. The basic idea is that I want to set up cygwin,
>>> put it on CD, and then by means of a batch file, have that CD act as a
>>> portable cygwin installation.
>> 
>> Can you use IU's Cygwin-based XLiveCD?
>
> It does look good, and I wasn't aware of it. Thanks for the link. 
> Unfortunately, it won't quite do what I want. I doesn't have tetex, which is 
> definitely one of my must-have packages.
>
> However, it does look like they got the symlinks to work on the cd, so if I 
> can figure how to do that myself, I'm set. I don't see anything in their docs 
> that indicates how they constructed the CD image though.
>
> -Chad
>
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Dick Repasky
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Indiana University
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