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Re: cygwin on a disk?


Well, it's not quite on a floppy disk (bzipped = 3.8 MB, uncompressed=7.7 MB), but what I've found to need, just copying over on demand for what I do:

executables (3.1 MB):
awk, bash, cat, chmod, cp, cygcheck, gzip, less, ls, mkdir, more, mv, perl, pwd, rm, scp, sed, sftp, ssh, tar, telnet, vim, wget, which


supporting dlls (4.6 MB):
cygwin1.dll, cygiconv-2.dll, cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll, libperl5_6_1.dll, cygcrypto.dll, cygncurses6.dll, cygssl.dll, cygz.dll, cygintl-1.dll, cygintl-2.dll


Definitely can save some space by cutting out some of those programs (vim(942K) and bash(531K) being the biggest space hogs... sh(69K) is MUCH smaller)

Anyways, there's a rough guide... hope it helps... Havn't messed with mount or the registry at all, so I'm sure I'm missing something ;)

-Tim

From: Kevin Soandso <k dot junk at verizon dot net>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Subject: cygwin on a disk?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:26:03 -0400

I use cygwin at home and work all the time and I love it. Many thanks to all the developers and contributors.

I have a 64MB removable USB drive, about the size of a pen. I would like to minimally install cygwin on this drive and and take it from computer to computer. The idea is to simply plug the drive into the USB port of any Windows machine and have my personal cygwin environment there to use. I won't have the same Windows account on these machines (if at all), but I'd like to use the same cygwin login and home dir.

Is there something about the way cygwin works that will prevent this?
Has anyone made "cgywin on a disk" ?
How could I do this, what do I need?

-Kevin


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