On 12/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Flynn</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@silmaril.ie">peter@silmaril.ie</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have had a number of enquiries from users with older equipment<br>(no DVD drive) about whether it is possible to extract and burn a<br>Live CD because their admins have the machines locked down tight<br>and they can't install MikTeX -- but they could run from CD.
<br><br>Failing that, has anyone done a run-from-USB distro? Or tested<br>having a complete system installed on a USB drive?<br></blockquote></div><br>The problem of systems locked down by uncooperative and unsympathetic
<br>admins is not restricted to Windows. With teTeX it has always been <br>possible for a user to put the texmf trees and binaries in a user disk area <br>(USB, network, CD, etc.) and run TeX after adjusting the PATH variable.
<br>I think this still holds for TL2005 on unix/linux and on Win32.<br><br>I don't know MikTeX well enough to know if there is a way to work around<br>user privilege constraints, but certainly for TL2005 you can generate a tree
<br>with Win32 binaries using a personal system or even linux, copy the tree to <br>another system, arrange to add the bin/win32 directory to the path in a <br>shell window, and run TeX. You may need to adjust texmf.cnf.
<br><br>-- <br>George N. White III <<a href="mailto:aa056@chebucto.ns.ca">aa056@chebucto.ns.ca</a>><br>Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia