installation TeX Live 4

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:19:41 +0100 (BST)


George Robertsson writes:
 > I have great problems when installing TeX Live 4 March 1999. The machine
 > used is an Toshiba Satelite PRO CDT410, a Pentium 166Mhz or 200MHz. The disk
 > is 800Mb and the only software installed is  a minimum Windows 95 (approx
 > 130 Mb. Directly after installation of recomended TeX the system starts to
 > delete all files in the \TeX directory and the procedure stops when all
 > TeX-files and TeX-direcories are erased. Have you experienced this before?
 > Can you give me some advice?

I have not seen this sort of report before.

But whatever else you do, get the TeX Live 5 CD-ROM. The installation
is much improved.

Sebastian