There have been various posts about using Cygwin on portable devices both writeable and un-writeable, e.g. CDs, USB sticks, USB drives. In the first case, and except for high capacity sticks, the Cygwin installation would have to be cut down to fit.
A DVD will support the complete installation, at least in respect of size. However, all attempts to build such a DVD have failed for me in Windows (Nero) and in Fedora and Mandrake. The (my) version of Nero sophisticated enough to address DVDs seems to lack the useful and informative error messaging of earlier versions, but I think it's to do with the path length of the most outlying Cygwin files. The longest pathname that I can find is 126 characters long (there are several of these). The might also be a consequence of ?number of nested branches or ?properties of the filename rather then the pathname. Has anybody else tried to do this (build a DVD) with Cygwin or some other large resource, and experienced similar difficulties? Do you recognise the problem? Is there a solution? Thank you. Fergus -- 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/
