From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Peter Steiner <pxsteiner@yahoo.ca>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:10:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2810021269.20211114191016@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ab88470-74c9-49d7-3c42-281927dee218@yahoo.ca>
Greetings, Peter Steiner!
> On webpage
> https://cygwin.com/
> I found only a CgyWin Installer to download.
> I prefer to put CygWin on an USB flash drive and run it on various
> computers without leaving installation traces.
You will have to format the stick to NTFS, and run rebaseall for each time you
insert your stick into a new system, which defeats the very idea of having a
"portable Cygwin" - it will always be tied to a specific system.
> Is there really no portable version to download?
> What if I install it once one computer and copy all the files to my USB flash drive?
> Are there any disadvantages?
It may just break at the least predictable moment.
Some tools may freak about permissions being wrong (for those per-user
entries in the /home directory).
Some may simply crash due to changed address layout.
This is simply not feasible, IMO.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, November 14, 2021 18:47:12
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-14 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1ab88470-74c9-49d7-3c42-281927dee218.ref@yahoo.ca>
2021-11-14 7:37 ` Peter Steiner
2021-11-14 10:32 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-11-14 11:15 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-11-14 11:40 ` Larry W. Virden
2021-11-14 16:10 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2021-11-14 16:36 ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-14 22:29 ` Shaddy Baddah
2021-11-14 16:39 ` Christian Franke
2021-11-14 11:38 Fergus Daly
2021-11-14 12:40 ` Marco Atzeri
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