Portable CygWin version for Windows?
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Sun Nov 14 11:15:04 GMT 2021
Am 14.11.2021 um 11:32 schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin:
> On 14.11.2021 08:37, Peter Steiner via Cygwin wrote:
>> On webpage
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/
>>
>> I found only a CgyWin Installer to download.
>>
>> I prefer to put CygWin on an USB flash drive and run it on various
>> computers without leaving installation traces.
>>
>> Is there really no portable version to download?
>
> correct. No one should install all the files
>
>>
>> What if I install it once one computer and copy all the files to my
>> USB flash drive?
>> Are there any disadvantages?
>
> The file permissions will be not correct.
Actually, if you format your USB stick to NTFS, this should work. I
remember to have had a mobile cygwin stick around a while ago.
>
> What you can do is use the USB stick as location for the cache download
> and install from the USB on the other computers.
>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
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