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? > >Unfortunately, it won't quite do what I want. I doesn't have tetex, >which is definitely one of my must-have packages.
Have you tried putting a blank CD-R in a CD-RW drive and formatting it for DirectCD? This makes the recordable CD look to Windows like a removable drive, and you can access it for reading and writing, just like a disk drive. Of course, when you delete or overwrite files, the original file contents still take up room on the CD-R, but they are no longer accessible. The advantage is that the files are not read only as they are on a CD-ROM. This preserves the file attributes, unlike recording to a read-only CD-R. Just a thought. Steve Munson -- 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/
