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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Beuthe, Thomas wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Philip added:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="color:#1F497D">></span>Estimated time to
completion on my Fujitsu Celsius W550 (i7, 16GB, 1TB M2 SSD +
32TB disc farm) is around three hours, installing from a 16GB
<span style="color:#1F497D"></span>USB stick onto which has
been unpacked the complete TeX Collection ISO.
<br>
<span style="color:#1F497D">></span>USB Device Tree Viewer
V3.5.2 shews the USB stick as being connected to a USB 2.0 MTT
Hub under an Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host <span
style="color:#1F497D"></span>Controller. Installing is
taking place to the M2 SSD.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In
past years, the complete installation would take way less
than an hour. Ok, the overall package has grown, but not by
a factor of 2x-4x I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I
somehow get this creepy feeling that the perl unpacker is
lagging or something. Hard to tie down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It
just used to me so much faster. Or maybe I’m just getting
older? :-)</span><br>
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Hard to know, especially as we are all ageing at the same rate !
Unfortunately my installation failed as follows :<br>
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... zztex<br>
... 3:00:40<br>
Use of uninitialised value $deftmflocal in string
N:/texlive/install-tl line 1364.<br>
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I am about to try again ...<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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