[tex-live] Install from DVD fails :-(

[Philip TAYLOR]

Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> Dear Colleagues -- Having downloaded and unpacked
> "texlive2008-20080822.iso.lzma", unmangled it
> using 7-zip, burnt a DVD from the resulting ISO,
> compared the DVD contents (twice) with the ISO,
> and started an install, I have hit an error :

which did not recur when I deleted all under

	F:\TeX\Live\2008

and repeated the exercise.  The CMD transcript
shewed no problems :

> Installing: zefonts
> Installing: ziffer
> Installing: zwgetfdate
> running post install action for bin-texdoc
> running post install action for bin-texlive
> running post install action for bin-tlpsv.win32
> running post install action for texlive-cz
> running post install action for texlive-de
> running post install action for texlive-en
> running post install action for texlive-fr
> running post install action for texlive-pl
> running post install action for texlive-ru
> running post install action for texlive-zh-cn
> running post install action for texlive.infra
> running post install action for xetex
> 27 File(s) copied
> 1 File(s) copied
> Running fc-cache -v -r
> running mktexlsr F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf
> mktexlsr: Updating F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updated F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/ls-R.
> mktexlsr: Updating F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updated F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf/ls-R.
> mktexlsr: Done.
> writing fmtutil.cnf data to F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> writing updmap.cfg to F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.cfg
> writing language.dat data to F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/langu
> age.dat
> writing language.def data to F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/langu
> age.def
> running mktexlsr F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var
> mktexlsr: Updating F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updated F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/ls-R.
> mktexlsr: Done.
> running updmap-sys... done
> re-running mktexlsr F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var
> mktexlsr: Updating F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Updated F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/ls-R.
> mktexlsr: Done.
> pre-generating all format files (fmtutil-sys --all), be patient...done
> G:\install-tl: done.
> Logfile: F:/TeX/Live/2008/install-tl.log
> Press any key to continue . . .

but the FC-cache problems recurred as usual :

> running post install action for texlive-zh-cn
> running post install action for texlive.infra
> running post install action for xetex
> Running fc-cache -v -r
> C:/WINDOWS/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 810 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 20 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/Asana-Math: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/antt: caching, new cache contents: 16 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/cyklop: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfsartemisia: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfsbaskerville: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfsbodoni: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfscomplutum: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfsdidot: caching, new cache contents: 5 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfsneohellenic: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfsporson: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gfssolomos: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/iwona: caching, new cache contents: 20 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/kurier: caching, new cache contents: 20 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm: caching, new cache contents: 72 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/mnsymbol: caching, new cache contents: 14 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/phaistos: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/philokalia: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/semaphor: caching, new cache contents: 15 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre: caching, new cache contents: 33 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/umtypewriter: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/hoekwater: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/hoekwater/lmextra: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 3 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/belleek: caching, new cache contents: 3 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/itrans: caching, new cache contents: 5 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian: caching, new cache contents: 13 fonts, 0 dirs
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/fonts/cache: cleaning cache directory
>  fc-cache: failed
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/kurier: failed to write cache
>  FcDirCacheValid(dir) returned FcFalse.
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre: failed to write cache
>  FcDirCacheValid(dir) returned FcFalse.
>  F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype: failed to write cache
>  FcDirCacheValid(dir) returned FcFalse.
> running mktexlsr F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-dist F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf
> writing fmtutil.cnf data to F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> writing updmap.cfg to F:/TeX/Live/2008/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.cfg

and a /cursory/ scan over the remainder of Install-TL.log
revealed no further problems :

> Running: pdftex --ini --jobname=pdfxmltex --progname=pdfxmltex &pdflatex pdfxmltex.ini <nul
>  The file pdfxmltex.fmt created.
>  
>  
>  Now I check executable files...
>  If some executable files do not exist, you must make them
>  by hard link (Windows NT/2000/XP) or copying (Windows 95/98/Me).
>  
>  OK. aleph.exe exists.               OK. lamed.exe exists.
>  OK. amstex.exe exists.              OK. texexec.bat exists.
>  OK. texexec.bat exists.             OK. mptopdf.bat exists.
>  OK. metafun.exe exists.             OK. cslatex.exe exists.
>  OK. pdfcslatex.exe exists.          OK. csplain.exe exists.
>  OK. pdfcsplain.exe exists.          OK. eplain.exe exists.
>  OK. jadetex.exe exists.             OK. pdfjadetex.exe exists.
>  OK. latex.exe exists.               OK. pdflatex.exe exists.
>  OK. lualatex.exe exists.            OK. pdflualatex.exe exists.
>  OK. luatex.exe exists.              OK. pdfluatex.exe exists.
>  OK. mf.exe exists.                  OK. mpost.exe exists.
>  OK. mex.exe exists.                 OK. pdfmex.exe exists.
>  OK. mltex.exe exists.               OK. mllatex.exe exists.
>  OK. omega.exe exists.               OK. lambda.exe exists.
>  OK. etex.exe exists.                OK. pdfetex.exe exists.
>  OK. pdftex.exe exists.              OK. physe.exe exists.
>  OK. phyzzx.exe exists.              OK. tex.exe exists.
>  OK. texsis.exe exists.              OK. utf8mex.exe exists.
>  OK. xetex.exe exists.               OK. xelatex.exe exists.
>  OK. xmltex.exe exists.              OK. pdfxmltex.exe exists.
>  
> done
> G:\install-tl: done.

** Phil.