[tex-live] The suggestions (from tex-d-l) (Re: Comment on Re: TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation))

[Oliver Bandel]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:11:37PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
[...]
> well, in the case of such fresh hardware with enough disk space i'd copied 
> the whole lot (texmf/texmf-dist) from dvd to disk and not bothered about 
> subsets or packages apart from the binaries; copying a dvd directly should 
> be no big deal; 
[...]

Yes, I tested it... on my linux machine it was about half an hour
for copying. (not fast, but maybe ok)

Ciao,
   Oliver