Re: X on a USB Disk under Windows
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:34:10 -0500
Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a somewhat unique situation.
>
> You see, I have a fairly large USB Disk (512 MB), on which I placed
> PuTTY. Then when I am at school (which uses crappy Windows XP), I
> simply plug in the USB drive, fire up PuTTY and SSH into my Debian
> "Testing" server at home.
>
> This is all well, except for just recently, I learned of the wonders
> of X11 Forwarding. I set it up within my home Debian network and it
> works fine, but I would like to know how to set up X11 Forwarding
> between Windows and Debian. This in itself is not unique because all I
> would normally have to do is install something like Cygwin/X, and I
> would be all set. But in this case, I cannot do that because we are
> not allowed to install anything on the school computers. If I keep it
> on my USB disk, I am fine.
>
> And that brings me to my question. Is it possible to install something
> like Cigwin/X on a USB Disk and then use it for X11 Forwarding under
> PuTTY? I would very much love to do this because then I could pretty
> much do anything without being constrained by obnoxious web blockers,
> and filters (the school blocks nearly everything on port 80 that it
> doesn't know what it is).
Are you allowed to boot the computer off your usb disk? If yes, you
could try installing something like FeatherLinux
(http://featherlinux.berlios.de) on your usb drive and boot the
computer off it. It would have ssh and X for you, along with a few
other Linux programs.
HTH,
Jacob
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