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<DIV class=plainMail>Hi Andreas,</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Have you tried to install to C:\TexLive rather than C:\Program Files or C:\Program? It seemed like Administrator privilage was not given even after you change your status to Administrator.</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV class=plainMail>Steve</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail><BR>Message: 4<BR>Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:31:48 +0100<BR>From: Andreas Hirsch <<A href="http://us.mc1107.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afj@gmx.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow>afj@gmx.org</A>><BR>Subject: [tex-live] report: testing installation on windows vista<BR>To: TeXLive <<A href="http://us.mc1107.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tex-live@tug.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow>tex-live@tug.org</A>><BR>Message-ID: <<A href="http://us.mc1107.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=49B15E04.2080408@gmx.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow>49B15E04.2080408@gmx.org</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<BR><BR>Hi again!<BR><BR>As promised, here are the results of our testing this afternoon:<BR><BR>The tests took place on a Windows Vista SP1 localized german system.<BR><BR>install-tl.zip has been downloaded immediately before from<BR><A href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/install-tl.zip" target=_blank
rel=nofollow>http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/install-tl.zip</A><BR><BR>After unzipping, install-tl.bat has been started as administrator<BR>(<A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131138.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131138.png</A>)<BR><BR>The setting of the installation-paths remained unchanged, only<BR>collections and languages wer justified<BR>(<A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131246.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131246.png</A> and<BR><A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131355.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131355.png</A>)<BR><BR>Installation starts<BR>(<A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131449.png" target=_blank
rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131449.png</A>)<BR><BR>Installation is broken due to an untarring error (sorry, no screenshot<BR>for the first try).<BR><BR>No we tried a second run, resuming the broken installation. This seemed<BR>to work<BR>(<A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_142451.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_142451.png</A>).<BR><BR>But! After restarting Vista, we've got what Steve had got before:<BR><A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_142930.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_142930.png</A><BR>[Translation: folder C:\program could cause problems and schould be<BR>renamed to C:\program1]<BR><BR>The TeX-Live files are splittet into C:\programme\texlive (as desired)<BR>and into C:\program [with missing 'texlive']<BR>(<A
href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143026.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143026.png</A><BR><A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143110.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143110.png</A><BR><A href="http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143149.png" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143149.png</A>)<BR><BR>So we can say: resuming from a broken TL-Inst failes!<BR><BR>the remaining problem is: we've got only untarring-broken installations<BR>this afternoon :-(<BR><BR>It's a mirracle, why the resumed installation did not get another<BR>untarring error<BR><BR>Maybe theres a conjunction 'installing into C:\programme' causes<BR>untarring errors?<BR><BR>Or just a question of mirror and downloading?<BR><BR>Andreas<BR><BR>--
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