[tex-live] TeX Live on usb drive
cetex at didaskalikos.org
cetex at didaskalikos.org
Tue Mar 17 10:54:08 CET 2009
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Philip TAYLOR a écrit :
>
>> Is it possible that Jerónimo's users are trying to
>> install under Vista, and that Vista's paranoia
>> concerning security is refusing to allow anything
>> on an untrusted USB stick to execute ?
>>
Yes, I intend install under Vista (my students are Vista-users and all
of them from humanistic areas as also I am: my course is about critical
editions with the package ledmac). The paranoia security is also assured
by the net of my University (no wifi, no dhcp, a proxy...). I tried the
suggestion of Manuel: I downloaded install-tl from the net installation
tree, unziped it into the usb-drive and, from Vista, I clicked onto the
install-tl.bat
file and something happened, but this kind of system automatically try
to connect to internet, and then:
Loading http://mirror...
unusable location http://mirror...
Then, this way is not useful for me (I suspect that also for others).
I'm not sure if MikTeX is the best for me. I was persuaded that TeX Live
is the most compatible system (also for Mac, which is used by a little
number of students). I need an universal system (for Mac, Win, Linux;
for old laptops without wi-fi, and so on) that can install also in the
third world, fast and complete (ledmac, but also xelatex... for the
greecists).
I tried (several months ago) to copy from the DVD the whole system to
the usb-drive, but something with the installer happened that stopped
the process. If you have a little bit of patience, I will reproduce the
error and, in a few days I will send to you the error message.
Thank you very much.
Jerónimo
> I don't think so. I installed TL from USB sticks on vista machine, and it
> worked. You just need to run install-tl.bat as administrator and perhaps click
> yes on one confirmation box.
>
> Anyway, Jerónimo, you shoudl probably give a bit more information as to what
> went wrong with your try: how you try, in which environment (win, unix), what
> error message...
>
> Manuel.
>
>
>
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