My Experience with running mush portably

Hi all,

I posted previously on when I was having trouble with MUSH on a portable drive, the good news is I figured out everything and have been running very smoothly ever since.

I wanted to share my experiences and give what I think is the best method to running mush without having to install it.

Mr. Gammon's way involves editing some SQL entries, and is good for a flash drive where the drive letter might change with each and every computer that you plug into. However, I think its easier to simply install MUSH directly TO the external drive just like you would any other program, and then manually assign a drive letter to that drive.

The reason I did this is because my flash drive had a different letter in windows XP vs windows 7, and the letters would change based on if I had my memory card reader or another external drive plugged in at the same time.

So I found an old laptop hard drive, put it in an enclosure, installed MUSH onto it, and manually assigned the Z: letter to it. It is a weird enough letter that I can easily identify it in My Computer without issue.

I am providing two links for assigning drive letters, one for XP and one for Windows 7:
Windows 7 - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter
XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844



I do realize that there are some users who use Ubuntu linux or some other OS and I am sure there are similar methods to assigning drive letters to those computers so that the plugins and world files in MUSH do not look for an incorrect path.


Thanks, just wanted to post this for my own future reference as well as to hopefully help anyone who may come across the same issue.

Forral

If you're still open for suggestions, here's one that may be a bit faster that I used to use back when I liked running things off of a flash drive:

Create a .cmd file on the drive, such as "mountP.cmd" or something.

Open mountP.cmd in a text editor:

This would basically create an entirely new drive letter based off of the Programs folder. Thus, you could install MUSHClient directly into the new P: drive and run everything from that location.

Of course, unplugging the drive will cause P: to become unfindable, but you can have another "unplug.cmd" which would do something like:

Running this before unplugging would kill MUSHClient (if it isn't already closed) and then remove the P: drive from My Computer.

Then you could put it all together and create an autoplay at the root of your drive which could run the cmd file upon plugging it in.

Anyhow, just thought I'd share that in case you'd like to try it out.

(Not sure how or if this would work on Vista/7...)