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Title: Original Bitcoin-Qt platform portable? Post by: manicminer on January 11, 2013, 11:42:51 PM Guys, all you are talking about here is security and I can't believe no one is interested in having the original bitcoin-QT client in a portable fashion. I think it's unbelievable that you can't install on your drive D: such a basic utility. Just don't tell me to use another client, OK?
Here is my situation: 1st, I simply do not have space on C:. 2nd, my C: is not writable, it is read only: secured by software DeepFreeze or Returnil not to catch any viruses. 3rd my D: is encrypted as per good tradecraft. I put all my software there. Preferably in a Portable format, the guys at PortableApps do a great job about it! Maybe it's not for them or it's just still too early? (See: http://portableapps.com/node/32240) Zellface (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14726.msg272101#msg272101) also asked about the PortableApps implementation. No one is interested in this? Are the original bitcoin-Qt developers around here? Not in the newbie thread I guess. Title: Re: Original Bitcoin-Qt platform portable? Post by: Largo on January 12, 2013, 12:06:44 AM You can make bitcoin-qt portable yourself (with a few limitations only afaik).
Install Bitcoin somewhere. 1.) Give your portable disk a static drive letter (If thats not possible use the detach databases on shutdown option in bitcoin, otherwise changing paths will make problems with the DB) 2.) Then take the c:\programs\bitcoin dir and move it to your USB Stick/other partition. 3.) Make a shortcut to Bitcoin-qt.exe with the following commandline option: datadir=E:\Bitcoindata (assuming E:\ is your portable drive) Just make sure the paths/driveletters wont change, then there should be no problems. Or did i miss something? Tried that and it seems to work. EDIT: 4.) Bitcoin stores its settings in the windows registry, but that shouldnt be a problem if you use a bitcoin.conf file, since it will just take those values then. Title: Re: Original Bitcoin-Qt platform portable? Post by: manicminer on January 12, 2013, 04:40:23 AM Thanks for the tip!
Will it just work before I download the whole block chain? As I mentioned I simply do not have enough space on C: to do so. Title: Re: Original Bitcoin-Qt platform portable? Post by: John (John K.) on January 12, 2013, 05:44:57 AM Thanks for the tip! Yes. I'm running mine off a Truecrypt encrypted virtual drive.Will it just work before I download the whole block chain? As I mentioned I simply do not have enough space on C: to do so. Title: Re: Original Bitcoin-Qt platform portable? Post by: manicminer on January 13, 2013, 01:54:38 PM You can make bitcoin-qt portable yourself (with a few limitations only afaik). Install Bitcoin somewhere. 1.) Give your portable disk a static drive letter (If thats not possible use the detach databases on shutdown option in bitcoin, otherwise changing paths will make problems with the DB) 2.) Then take the c:\programs\bitcoin dir and move it to your USB Stick/other partition. 3.) Make a shortcut to Bitcoin-qt.exe with the following commandline option: datadir=E:\Bitcoindata (assuming E:\ is your portable drive) Just make sure the paths/driveletters wont change, then there should be no problems. Or did i miss something? Tried that and it seems to work. EDIT: 4.) Bitcoin stores its settings in the windows registry, but that shouldnt be a problem if you use a bitcoin.conf file, since it will just take those values then. Code: bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=. Ain't this easier? Puts the data directory inside the Bitcoin-Qt directory. Plain and simple. |