[tex-live] TeX Live 2009 released

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Tue Nov 10 12:28:39 CET 2009


Lars Madsen wrote:
> Karl Berry wrote:
>>     But would it be possible to get the rsync exmplanation that was on 
>> the     pretest pages back?
>>
>> http://tug.org/texlive/acquire-mirror.html has the equivalent info for
>> mirroring from the CTAN location.
>>
> 
> thanks, I actually had a look at that page earlier today, but being 
> unfamiliar part of rsync, I had a bit of a problem figuring out how to 
> get only tlnet and below.
> 
> Will have another look at it in te morning.
> 

Very interesting in fact.

rsync'ed a mirror

copied everything to a USB stick (md5 check everything and fixed a few 
transfer errors)

Installed in a linux laptop in less than 10 minutes.

See now we are talking good installation speeds ;-)

-- 

/daleif


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