[tex-live] report: testing installation on windows vista
Andreas Hirsch
afj at gmx.org
Fri Mar 6 18:31:48 CET 2009
Hi again!
As promised, here are the results of our testing this afternoon:
The tests took place on a Windows Vista SP1 localized german system.
install-tl.zip has been downloaded immediately before from
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/install-tl.zip
After unzipping, install-tl.bat has been started as administrator
(http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131138.png)
The setting of the installation-paths remained unchanged, only
collections and languages wer justified
(http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131246.png and
http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131355.png)
Installation starts
(http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_131449.png)
Installation is broken due to an untarring error (sorry, no screenshot
for the first try).
No we tried a second run, resuming the broken installation. This seemed
to work
(http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_142451.png).
But! After restarting Vista, we've got what Steve had got before:
http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_142930.png
[Translation: folder C:\program could cause problems and schould be
renamed to C:\program1]
The TeX-Live files are splittet into C:\programme\texlive (as desired)
and into C:\program [with missing 'texlive']
(http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143026.png
http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143110.png
http://members.gaponline.de/afj/inst_tl/capture_06032009_143149.png)
So we can say: resuming from a broken TL-Inst failes!
the remaining problem is: we've got only untarring-broken installations
this afternoon :-(
It's a mirracle, why the resumed installation did not get another
untarring error
Maybe theres a conjunction 'installing into C:\programme' causes
untarring errors?
Or just a question of mirror and downloading?
Andreas
--
'Die Physik erklärt die Geheimnisse der Natur nicht,
sie führt sie auf tiefer liegende Geheimnisse zurück.'
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007)
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