Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Running Ethereal without installing it on Windows system
Sandrino M. wrote:
I would like to know if it is possible to run Ethereal without
installing it on a windows system.
An exemple : I would like to have it on a usb key and run Ethereal
directly from this key without installing it. Is it possible ?
It might be. We haven't ever tried it.
The USB key would have to contain a Windows-compatible file system (such
as VFAT or NTFS), so that it looks like another disk drive on the
system. You would have to plug the USB key in and install Ethereal on
the system, telling the installer to put it on that other drive. I
don't know whether the installer lets you say "install Ethereal here"; I
suspect it does, but I don't know. This would, of course, require that
the USB key have enough space to install Ethereal; I don't know whether
it would.
If you're going to capture network traffic, you'd have to install
WinPcap as well - and, as it includes a driver, I suspect you *can't*
install it on anything other than the system disk. You would have to
ask the WinPcap developers whether that's possible. If it's not, you
would *NOT* be able to walk up to a Windows machine with a USB port,
plug your key into it, and start capturing traffic.
