From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Alcocer To: "Alex Malinovich" Cc: Subject: Re: Mobile install Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 02:31:00 -0000 Message-id: <15248.43695.165711.429512@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20010830155843.022e12c0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <000001c13291$1fd31b20$0800a8c0@TheLoveShack.local> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00002.html >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Malinovich writes: Alex> I'm trying to figure out a way to install Cygwin onto a Zip Alex> disk so that it is completely INDEPENDENT of the OS. That Alex> is, no need to register DLL's, etc. Alex> The idea is to go up to any lab computer, pop in the zip Alex> disk, and start working in Cygwin. Alex> I'm guessing that I can just put cygwin1.dll in the cygwin Alex> root. Anything else I need to be aware of. The main issue is that the mount(1) command uses the registry to store information regarding mount points. If you're willing to setup the mount points each time by hand, then yes, you should be able to have a mobile installation that works. One thing you could try is to use a batch file that's present on the Zip disk that would set up the mounts for you before running a Cygwin bash(1) shell. In fact, you could take a modified version of cygwin.bat and add calls to mount to set up up your mount points. It should work. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/