Cygwin; the Linux like environment for Windows, is another terribly useful application that can be a bit difficult to get installed properly (at least for us Cygwin novices). You can find some pretty good advice here. If you’re looking to get Cygwin installed on a USB drive look no further; download cygwin for USB, and unzip it in your USB drive’s root directory. All the credit for this Cygwin install goes to these directions and their creator. In order to get this running properly, you’ll need to do two things.
- As I mentioned before; unzip Cygwin for USB in the root directory of your USB drive
- Rename the directory /cygwin/home/userName to your new user name
- Open the file /cygwin/etc/profile with notepad
- Find the two references to userName and change them to your new user name
Run the X.bat to start cygwin, run uninstall.bat after ending your session (more on that can be found at the scripts site)
Thank you! Thank you! Awesome, awesome, awesome…
Works wonderfully….except one thing, you have to take all of the contents of the folder “Cygwin_For_USB” and move them into the root folder of your usb drive. This means that X.bat and Uninstall.bat will be in the root folder along with the cygwin folder.