On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, zzapper wrote: > > > Hi Y'All > > > > Anyone investigated putting a cutdown version of CygWin onto a memory > > stick (128MB or bigger). > > What would you need the dlls vim,find,grep,ls etc?? > > > > zzapper (vim & cygwin & zsh) > > Sure. Google for "Cygwin on CD". Some issues (mostly having to do with > the read-onlyness of CDs) won't come up with the memory stick, others will > (/etc/passwd contents, for example). [snip]
Umm, one *very* important issue I forgot to mention (although it probably would come up in the referenced threads) is interaction with an existing Cygwin installation. Be careful to not trash that. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/