From: Fergus Daly <fergusd84@outlook.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Fergus Daly <fergusd84@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:38:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB6PR03MB3013B55A3C19CC665DEB9F74A4979@DB6PR03MB3013.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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
>> 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.
Having trouble following the assertions here.
I've had a FAT32 portable USB stick supporting both Cygwin32 and Cygwin64
for, dunno, 20 years or something. I made a new one from scratch last night, actually,
absolutely coincidentally to this post. Whilst not "Full" the installation is way in advance
of "Base". I just run
setup -P <list of packages I want - exactly 50 of them>
at the Windows command prompt, installing to a formatted FAT32 stick, and away I go.
Time after time after time.
Fergus
next reply other threads:[~2021-11-14 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-14 11:38 Fergus Daly [this message]
2021-11-14 12:40 ` Marco Atzeri
[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
2021-11-14 16:36 ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-14 22:29 ` Shaddy Baddah
2021-11-14 16:39 ` Christian Franke
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