[tex-live] Re: [tug-board] Any news of DVDs ?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Hartmut" == Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel at gmx.de> writes:

  > same sloooowness on my Linux PC. The sound of the DVD during
  > install was that it was constantly positioning the head back and
  > forth, seems for any individual file. So the slowdown here might
  > be just by the sum of these many positionings. Could this be an
  > issue in the install script, that some auxiliary install file at
  > the other end of the DVD must always be read before extracting any
  > zip file?

A few months ago at our local TeX meeting Thomas Esser reported about
a program which solves exactly this problem.  It´s part of the Knoppix
sources.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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