[MLUG] cygwin on a pen drive? (slightly off topic, sorry)

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

When I was buying a power supply for the new linux box a couple of
weeks ago, I bought a 2 GB pen drive for $12. (This was at
MicroCenter, which I would describe as a small order of Fry's with a
bit too much salt and the worst Muzak ever; there's one in Overland
Park.)

One thing I realized could make my life rather happier would be to
have a portable but fully functional version of Cygwin in my wallet
(which is where I keep my USB thumb drive. In any case, it looks like
the canonical instructions for doing this are these:

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/

They seem straight forward, but I was wondering how "clean" this
method was in terms of mucking around with the host PC, or whether
anybody out there had tried this and had either great success or
issues that are worth knowing about.

At first blush, a 2 GB pen drive can hold almost anything you would
want out of Cygwin plus a solid amount of space for user files
(although I understand that file system performance will be pretty
crappy in this case).

Thanks for any advice on this; unfortunately, Linux (even booting into
it from an external) is not really an option for me in this situation.

jking

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