[tex-live] Is the TeX Live 2018 installer (for Windows) considerably slower than previous years

[Philip Taylor (RH-UoL)]

Thanks, Reinhard — mystery solved, I think :

> I am now re-installing using "Install-TL-Advanced.bat", and all seems 
> to be proceeding smoothly; I suspect that on the previous occasion I 
> may, in an attempt to avoid the need to specify the root directory as 
> three separate components, have run the installer executable directly 
> rather than via the CMD file (I didn't success in my attempt, but that 
> is nonetheless probably what happened). 

** Phil.