From: "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
Cc: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 06:40:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPRVdgQVqVG-P9jOS1vvkoNp10Kd3u1u2Dp5mbtJDEj_XHvwow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c138ea0-84df-c54a-2af1-1182cfa6e928@towo.net>
https://sites.google.com/site/devinsezer/Home/software/portable-cygwin
Is an older article but discusses it.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 6:16 AM Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote:
>
>
> Am 14.11.2021 um 11:32 schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin:
> > On 14.11.2021 08:37, Peter Steiner via Cygwin wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Is there really no portable version to download?
> >
> > correct. No one should install all the files
> >
> >>
> >> What if I install it once one computer and copy all the files to my
> >> USB flash drive?
> >> Are there any disadvantages?
> >
> > The file permissions will be not correct.
> Actually, if you format your USB stick to NTFS, this should work. I
> remember to have had a mobile cygwin stick around a while ago.
>
> >
> > What you can do is use the USB stick as location for the cache download
> > and install from the USB on the other computers.
> >
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >
> > Regards
> > Marco
> >
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-14 11:40 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 [this message]
2021-11-14 16:10 ` Andrey Repin
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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