[tex-live] Re: [tug-board] Any news of DVDs ?

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Jan 27 09:54:18 CET 2006


Hartmut Henkel wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>  
>
>>    My main comment concerns the /unbelievably/ long time it took
>>    to install (compared to previous releases).
>>
>>You don't say what platform you're on.  The Unix installer of the live
>>version has always been slow (ironically enough, the inst installer is
>>faster); I didn't think it was especially worse this year than before.
>>I cannot speak to Windows.
>>    
>>
>
>same sloooowness on my Linux PC. The sound of the DVD during install was
>that it was constantly positioning the head back and forth, seems for
>any individual file. So the slowdown here might be just by the sum of
>these many positionings. Could this be an issue in the install script,
>that some auxiliary install file at the other end of the DVD must always
>be read before extracting any zip file?
>  
>
could indeed be a reason; depending on your setup, windows can first index the file, which then should speed up reading 

Hans 

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