cygwin on a disk?

[Tim Renner]

Well, it's not quite on a floppy disk (bzipped = 3.8 MB, uncompressed=7.7 
MB), but what I've found to need, just copying over on demand for what I do:

executables (3.1 MB):
awk, bash, cat, chmod, cp, cygcheck, gzip, less, ls, mkdir, more, mv, perl, 
pwd, rm, scp, sed, sftp, ssh, tar, telnet, vim, wget, which

supporting dlls (4.6 MB):
cygwin1.dll, cygiconv-2.dll, cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll, libperl5_6_1.dll, 
cygcrypto.dll, cygncurses6.dll, cygssl.dll, cygz.dll, cygintl-1.dll, 
cygintl-2.dll

Definitely can save some space by cutting out some of those programs 
(vim(942K) and bash(531K) being the biggest space hogs... sh(69K) is MUCH 
smaller)

Anyways, there's a rough guide... hope it helps... Havn't messed with mount 
or the registry at all, so I'm sure I'm missing something ;)

-Tim

>From: Kevin Soandso <k.junk@verizon.net>
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: cygwin on a disk?
>Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:26:03 -0400
>
>I use cygwin at home and work all the time and I love it. Many thanks to 
>all the developers and contributors.
>
>I have a 64MB removable USB drive, about the size of a pen. I would like to 
>minimally install cygwin on this drive and and take it from computer to 
>computer. The idea is to simply plug the drive into the USB port of any 
>Windows machine and have my personal cygwin environment there to use. I 
>won't have the same Windows account on these machines (if at all), but I'd 
>like to use the same cygwin login and home dir.
>
>Is there something about the way cygwin works that will prevent this?
>Has anyone made "cgywin on a disk" ?
>How could I do this, what do I need?
>
>-Kevin
>
>
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