Re: Moving to the Desktop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm actually after is something like ~ cd `cygpath -D` I think it will work with cd `cygpath -D` That's backticks inside double quotes. Windows makes it easier since (I think) quotes are not allowed in filenames. Beyond that, I think a quick and dirty procedure is to backslash anything that isn't alphanumeric; if it's special, it gets escaped, and if it's not special, then backslash doesn't hurt anything. -Chad -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: putting cygwin *installation* on CD
On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:56 AM, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:33:07 -0500, Chad J McQuinn wrote: I'm try to put a cygwin installation (not the installer; a full-blown installation) on CD. The basic idea is that I want to set up cygwin, put it on CD, and then by means of a batch file, have that CD act as a portable cygwin installation. Can you use IU's Cygwin-based XLiveCD? It does look good, and I wasn't aware of it. Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it won't quite do what I want. I doesn't have tetex, which is definitely one of my must-have packages. However, it does look like they got the symlinks to work on the cd, so if I can figure how to do that myself, I'm set. I don't see anything in their docs that indicates how they constructed the CD image though. -Chad -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
putting cygwin *installation* on CD
Hi, I'm try to put a cygwin installation (not the installer; a full-blown installation) on CD. The basic idea is that I want to set up cygwin, put it on CD, and then by means of a batch file, have that CD act as a portable cygwin installation. I've got most of it worked out, including mounting a writable /tmp directory. The one problem I can't get around is symlinks. No matter what I do, I can not get the cygwin symlinks to be preserved--for example, /usr/bin/latex.exe which is a symlink to tex.exe. The symlinks all show up on the CD as plain files. Trying to execute them gives an error from the 16-bit MS DOS subsystem. I understand that I can just copy the executables over the symlinks to fix this problem, but that doesn't help with directory symlinks, for example. I just don't see a way around this. There has to be a way to do this, but I don't see it. I've tried everything I can think of to write the CD including various windows utilities as well as making an image with mkisofs (with both joliet and rock ridge on). From what I've read, it looks like the system attribute must be getting cleared in the process of going to CD. Is there any way to preserve it? Or is there any other way around this? Thanks in advance, -Chad -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
