[tex-live] TeX Live on usb drive

Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) Chaa006 at Gmail.Com
Sat Mar 21 17:03:12 CET 2009



Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

> Probably the best would be to have either:
> - A zip file with all tlnet/2008, which people can easily download and unzip to
> their USB drive. Now this means a 1Gb file which is likely to change every day,
> and I doubt CTAN can support it. Or perhaps we don't want to update it every
> time tlnet changes?
> - A clear how-to somewhere explaining how to recursively download tlnet/2008
> with common tools.

Well, let's await Jerónimo's comments, but my feeling
is that he is asking for something that does not require
a network connection.  And yes, you're right, 2 x CD
makes little sense these days.

** Phil.


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