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I want to install msys on a flash drive. I'm wondering if anyone is
familliar with a way that I could get msys to auto detect what drive it's
on? because obviously I can't depend on different windows systems always
adding it in the same place.

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Caleb Cushing

Re: [Mingw-msys] msys on flash drive From: Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@fr...> - 2008-10-10 08:33 Caleb Cushing a écrit : > I want to install msys on a flash drive. I'm wondering if anyone is > familliar with a way that I could get msys to auto detect what drive > it's on? because obviously I can't depend on different windows systems > always adding it in the same place. Yes, I have done it. See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/4003 -- Michael

Re: [Mingw-msys] msys on flash drive From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gm...> - 2008-10-10 20:58 > Yes, I have done it. > See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/4003 that's in many ways much more complicated that what I've done. of course it doesn't resolve the /etc/profile issues either. I've resolved those by removing username and logname detection and making them static. -- Caleb Cushing

Re: [Mingw-msys] msys on flash drive From: Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@fr...> - 2008-10-13 07:19 Caleb Cushing a écrit : >> Yes, I have done it. >> See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/4003 > > that's in many ways much more complicated that what I've done. of > course it doesn't resolve the /etc/profile issues either. I've > resolved those by removing username and logname detection and making > them static. Did you try to add: set USERNAME=myname before calling msys.bat ? -- Michael

Re: [Mingw-msys] msys on flash drive From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gm...> - 2008-10-13 09:26 > Did you try to add: > > set USERNAME=myname > > before calling msys.bat ? no... I just static-ed the username in /etc/profile why do it before calling msys.bat? -- Caleb Cushing

Re: [Mingw-msys] msys on flash drive From: Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@fr...> - 2008-10-13 09:46 Caleb Cushing a écrit : >> Did you try to add: >> >> set USERNAME=myname >> >> before calling msys.bat ? > > no... I just static-ed the username in /etc/profile why do it before > calling msys.bat? > Instead of using a static username, you can define it that way and avoid modifying /etc/profile. Also, as an example, if you want to use another directory for your home (instead of /home), you can define it with set HOME=%~d0\USBHOME -- Michael

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