Cygwin on external drive?

Cygwin on external drive?

[Zeilhofer, Peter]

Servus to all,
I moved a complete perfectly working Cygwin-configuration with Apache and SSL from C:\cygwin to F.\cygwin an external 40GB disk drive (connected via USB) and tried to get it running, but it will not work. I must say that I have expected problems. Should this be possible after a straight installation on an external drive from the beginning?
I think I found a hint in some faq that installation on C:\cygwin is not mandatory. 
Thanks in advance :-) 
with greetings from germany

Peter Zeilhofer
EP LP COM 5
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Mch-P, 46-732

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Re: Cygwin on external drive?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:32:06AM +0200, Zeilhofer, Peter wrote:
> Servus to all,
> I moved a complete perfectly working Cygwin-configuration with Apache and SSL from C:\cygwin to F.\cygwin an external 40GB disk drive (connected via USB) and tried to get it running, but it will not work. I must say that I have expected problems. Should this be possible after a straight installation on an external drive from the beginning?

You must change your mount points to use the new Windows paths instead of
the old ones.  Use mount and umount.  Perhaps you have to cd into the
new bin directory first and call ./mount instead of just mount.

Corinna

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Re: Cygwin on external drive?

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hallo Peter,

Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2003 um 11:32 schriebst du:

> I moved a complete perfectly working Cygwin-configuration with
> Apache and SSL from C:\cygwin to F.\cygwin an external 40GB disk
> drive (connected via USB) and tried to get it running, but it will
> not work. I must say that I have expected problems. Should this be
> possible after a straight installation on an external drive from the
> beginning?  
> I think I found a hint in some faq that installation on C:\cygwin is
> not mandatory. 
> Thanks in advance :-) 

Works well for me with the correct mounts.  But using services which
are running under 'Local System' account doesn't work because Windows
'mounts' (Shared Drives/Folders) are only visible to the user but not
to the system.

Servus,
Gerrit
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