[tex-live] TeX Live on usb drive
Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)
chaa006 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 09:25:31 CET 2009
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> I must admit that I don't understand the problem at all. Are you
> talking about the ISO image? It's a snapshot from last year and
> quite out-of-date. The preferred way to install TeX Live is to use
> the network installer:
>
> * You get the latest stuff.
>
> * You don't have to download/install anything you don't need.
>
> * The files you download are compressed by the most efficient
> compression algorithm (lzma) available today.
>
> What exactly is missing? What should be compressed dynamically?
If I understand Jerónimo Leal correctly, he has a laboratory
containing a number of machines that cannot themselves
use the network installer (for whatever reason); he therefore
wishes to download the minimum necessary for an offline install,
which he will perform using a USB stick. As he was having
considerable difficulty recursively fetching a necessary and
sufficient fileset, I suggested that he might like to try
using on-the-fly zipping, which hypothesis I then tested.
The results were very impressive : 30 minutes download for
a full TLnet/2008 recurse (including ZIP time), a net
saving in bandwidth (small but real), and a total installation
time of 1H30, which is better than I have achieved using
any other methodology.
** Phil.
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