[tex-live] TeX Live on usb drive
cetex at didaskalikos.org
cetex at didaskalikos.org
Sat Mar 21 15:21:27 CET 2009
Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote:
>
>
> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
>> I must admit that I don't understand the problem at all.
>> What exactly is missing? What should be compressed dynamically?
>
> If I understand Jerónimo Leal correctly, he has a laboratory
> containing a number of machines
Not exactly. I intend to distribute to my students of the Critical
Edition Course whith TeX/LaTeX (CeTeX, see:
http://www.didaskalikos.org/CeTeX/) an usb-drive with the components of
the installation system and my example files. As there are some students
that comes with a netbook (without DVD and without internet connection)
they cannot install LaTeX.
> that cannot themselves
> use the network installer (for whatever reason);
The lessons room has no Internet connection.
> 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,
Me but also the Windows users from humanistic areas that don't
understand what LaTeX is.
> 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.
Perhaps you are right, but I suggested in my fist email to do something
(I don't know which is the better way) in order to facilitate the
acquisition of an install-system (on usb-drive). This is not only
because I need this, but a suggestion to improve the way to distribute
TeX Live. Perhaps I didn't explain myself very well (I'm not speaking
English). I beg you pardon for my mistakes, but I ask you to consider
this possibility: not all the LaTeX users came from scientific areas
(although humanities are also "scientific").
Nevertheless I got already the system and I succeed in installing it in
my Vista computer. For the next time I have more experience, but not all
the potential users are capable of download in this way.
Thank you very much to all you.
Jerónimo Leal
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