[texhax] Fwd: BurningTeXLive 2008 on DVD

[John C Frain]

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From: John C Frain <frainj at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/9/23
Subject: Re: [texhax] BurningTeXLive 2008 on DVD
To: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo at kalinowski.com.br>


I have downloaded the .iso.lzma, decompressed it with the tex-live
program and all went well.I do not have access to the compressed file
at home but i would imagine that the program 7-zip would also
decompress the lmza file as several other decompression programs will.
 7-zip for windows does have a gui interface and the non command line
user might be more comfortable with it.  The texlive version is very
small and appears to be very efficient - as one would expect from that
source.

Best Regards

2008/9/23 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo at kalinowski.com.br>:
> g_thaler at fastmail.fm escreveu:
>> Dear Support Group,
>>
>> First of all let me thank you for all the time and work you are
>> investing in the TeXLive project. TeXLive has become for me a very
>> interesting and stable (La)TeX distribution not only for Linux but also
>> for Win32 systems.
>>
>> But I think I have encountered a tiny bug in the description of
>> obtaining the TeXLive iso file.
>>
>> At http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html you write:
>>
>> " ...
>> The image is compressed with lzma. The results are much superior to zip
>> (or bzip2 or gzip), and for the file this size, it's worth it. If
>> needed, get the sources for lzma utilities and/or the lzma binaries,
>> including Windows, that we've compiled for TeX Live. From a command
>> prompt, run lzmadec <texlive2008.iso.lzma >texlive2008.iso to decompress
>> it.
>> ..."
>>
>> Well, I'm not very experienced as Unix or Windows User, I just wanted to
>> download and burn the ISO file on DVD on my Windows Vista PC. So I
>> followed your instructions, but it did'nt work. There is no command
>> lzmadec.
>>
>> - Perhaps you mean the program lzmadec.win32.exe. OK, at I have found So
>> I have downloaded the file lzmadec.win32.exe and executed the command
>> lzmadec.win32 texlive2008-20080822.iso.lzma texlive2008-20080822.iso and
>> waited. But nothing happened. So I guess your description is incorrect
>> once more
>
> Note the < and > signs in the command line. It should be
>
> lzmadec.win32 < texlive2008-20080822.iso.lzma > texlive2008-20080822.iso
>
>
> ***
>
> On the other hand, I think that the average Windows user will have a lot
> of trouble with that decompression, many wouldn't even know what command
> prompt is or what it means to type a command line.
>
> --
> Eduardo M Kalinowski
> eduardo at kalinowski.com.br
>
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