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Energy · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 133 Location: uk/beds/flitwick

Hey all,
I'm always runnig backwards and forwards from uni, and I usually get good coding ideas while in uni. However my sdk (on cygwin) is setup on my home machine. Is there any possible way to set up a version of cygwin on a USB drive with the devkit installed? Or heck even more impressive would be a linux bootdisc with the kit and a few tools on. I don't know, just would like something I can drag around with me.
Any ideas?

Thanks
Energy

Gizmo · Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 14

You could use a virtual machine like VMWare (install Linux and the SDK). Then just carry the OS image with you and run it with VMWare Player where ether you are.

Such a downloadable OS image would also be great solution for everyone that has trouble getting the SDK installed.

Gizmo

jsharrad · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 102

or you could install the toolchain on something like the bootable usb drives that DSL sells, just plug it in and off you go :)

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html

I'm pretty sure just copying over your cygwin folder to a usb drive would work though if you wanted to go that way.

Energy · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 133 Location: uk/beds/flitwick

accepttheownage · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 17

Copying the cygwin folder to your usb stick should work. I've tried this before and the only thing different was that it didn't use my original profile. Instead, it created a new one that had the same name as the current user on the machine, and started off in a different folder. It does this everytime you run it, but its not really a big deal when you only start cygwin once while you develop your programs.

jsharrad · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 102

Yeah if you wanted to use it on different computers where the usernames are likely different, you'd just have to make sure you set the path environment variable in the cygwin.bat file instead of your users .bashrc and put your project files somewhere that can be accessed by all users.

psx-frogger · Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

Hi all,

Take a look here,
it is a french web site,
but there is a Vmware disk which include a full sdk for psp
(debian sage and pspsdk)

http://www.psxdev.org/

root password : motdepasseroot
user password psxdev : psxdev

regards

psx-frogger

MikeDX · Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 30

THREE GIG!

Not exactly perfect for a small usb portable drive.. however it will come in handy

MikeDX · Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 30

things to consider about this boot image:

This uses a French AZERTY keyboard

I could not get the root pass to work due to this, so I had to reset it manually using single user from grub

Everything I tried from SVN worked perfectly, it is definitely a better option than using msys/cygwin on a windows box. One thing I will say is that it was a pain to pass files from the vm to the host o/s to actually run anything on the psp and usb wouldnt mount properly..