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Re: Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:08:00 -0000
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive
- References: <7347684.post@talk.nabble.com>
* Bodger (Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:16:06 -0800 (PST))
> How possible would it be to:
>
> 1) Install a Cygwin environment into a Thumbdrive, including /home, /usr
> etc.
Just install it (or copy it from an existing installation).
> 2) With the help of some crafty shell scripts, be available from most
> Windows boxes by plugging the thumb drive in and running the environment
> from there?
rem Make cygwin mounts
mount -fu %~d0\cygwin /
mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/bin /usr/bin
mount -fu %~d0\cygwin/lib /usr/lib
mkpasswd -lc > \cygwin\etc\passwd
mkgroup -lc > \cygwin\etc\group
Thorsten
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