Peter Steiner via Cygwin wrote:
On webpage
https://cygwin.com/
I found only a CgyWin Installer to download.
I occasionally use Cygwin installed to NTFS partitions of USB flash
drives for many years now. No problems so far, but the use cases were
typically limited to "rescue" purposes (mintty, dd, ddrescue, fdisk,
hexedit, smartctl, testdisk, ...). BTW: Also works great from the
limited WinPE environment booted from a FAT32 boot partition on same
flash drive.
I prefer to put CygWin on an USB flash drive and run it on various
computers without leaving installation traces.
Please be aware that there will be traces on all computers because a
registry value is set during startup of the root cygwin1.dll. The values
appear below one of the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations
A list is included in 'cygcheck -s' output. Alternatively try the
following commands from Cygwin shell:
ls -la /proc/registry??/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Cygwin/Installations
ls -la /proc/registry/HKEY_USERS/*/SOFTWARE/Cygwin/Installations
Regards,
Christian
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