Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
On 15/11/21 3:36 am, Achim Gratz wrote: Andrey Repin via Cygwin writes: You will have to format the stick to NTFS, and run rebaseall for each time you insert your stick into a new system, which defeats the very idea of having a "portable Cygwin" - it will always be tied to a specific system.

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Christian Franke
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

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin via Cygwin writes: > You will have to format the stick to NTFS, and run rebaseall for each time you > insert your stick into a new system, which defeats the very idea of having a > "portable Cygwin" - it will always be tied to a specific system. It all depends on what you want to do

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Peter Steiner! > 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. You will have to format the stick to NTFS, and run rebaseall for

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 14.11.2021 12:38, Fergus Daly via Cygwin 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

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Larry W. Virden via Cygwin
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 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 >

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Fergus Daly via Cygwin
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

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
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

Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread 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

Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-13 Thread Peter Steiner via Cygwin
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? What if I install it once one computer and copy all