[tex-live] Alternative to .iso?

[Ken Brooks]

Thanks, Reinhard; that helps.  (I can't muck with fstab because the 
"recipe" (script) I'm writing will be used on a lot of machines I don't 
control and can't have root privileges on.)

Now I realize I also want to automate the process of doing a full or 
nearly full install.  Anybody know enough to instruct me?  I could imagine:
   a. hacking away at install-tl.sh until I have a non-interactive,
      pre-scripted way of doing the same thing
   b. Using install-pkg.sh on various collections until I have 
everything
      I need.
Recommendations?  (Would an install-pkg of collection-basic be enough to 
get up and running?)

Ken

Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Brooks <kenb at rpath.com> writes:
> 
>   > Here are rpath we would like to automate the process of
>   > downloading and installing the texlive content, as we do with most
>   > other packages.  The only format I can see available on the
>   > texlive page is .iso, or various compressed forms thereof.  To
>   > mount an .iso file requires root privileges, which hinders
>   > automation.
> 
>   > Is the texlive content available as a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 archive?
>   > Or is there another option I have overlooked?
> 
>   wget -r http://tug.org/ftp/texlive/Contents/inst
> 
> This is the content of the install CD.  Run this command in a
> temporary directory and execute install-tl.sh .
> 
> install-tl.sh is an interactive tool, that's probably not exactly what
> you want.  But maybe it is sufficient to unzip all files in the
> archive directory.
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>