[tex-live] running recent TL from CD on Linux

Janusz S. Bień jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl
16 May 2002 18:14:53 +0200


I have just made a quick test of the image 20000515:

    <R> do not install files, set up to run off CD-ROM
    <I> start installation,  <H> help,  <Q> quit

Enter command: r
Preparing destination directories... 
system located as i386-linux
Clean fmtutil.cnf in /var/tmp/tl7/texmf-var/web2c... 
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `TeX': Permission denied
        What is the reason of this messages?  They gave impression
        that the installation is unsuccesful which seems to be
        misleading.
mktexlsr: Updating /home/jsbien/texmf/ls-R... 
        I write about separately.
mktexlsr: Updating /var/tmp/tl7/texmf-var/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: /texlive-cd/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping...
mktexlsr: Done.

The messages flash on the screen so quickly that they are unreadable.
To get the log quoted above, I run install-cd in Emacs shell. What is
the recommended approach to make all the messages readable?

Best regards

Janusz

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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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