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Re: Cygwin X live on CD

From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:54:36 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: Cygwin X live on CD
References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411301626490.25207@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de><u4qj63yq4.wl%zakki@peppermint.jp> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412010920540.5687@lack.ucs.indiana.edu>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Dick Repasky wrote:

> 
> I've built a CD-ROM that runs Cygwin X live from CD in a modest Cygwin
> environment.  It's available at http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/.
> 
> Briefly, I was messing around to build Cygwin on a USB flash drive and 
> posted to the Cygwin mailing list.  Fergus pointed out his instructions 
> for building a Cygwin CD.  I realized that we have users who could really 
> use Cygwin X on CD so I applied Fergus' instructions, made some 
> modifications, and added a wizard to give the CD the feel of an 
> application that has the sole purpose of running X.  The scripts that I 
> wrote to make the wizard work are under the GPL.

Nice to hear. 

bye
	ago
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References:
- Re: Internal-wm/rootless observations
  - From: Kensuke Matsuzaki
- Cygwin X live on CD
  - From: Dick Repasky

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