[tex-live] TeX Live on usb drive

[Philip TAYLOR]

This proved very successful :

> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp: 1144109883 bytes received in 1840.97Seconds 621.47Kbytes/sec.
> ftp>

Next stage will be to unzip and see if I can install.

** Phil.
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Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote:

> OK, I FTP'd to ftp.tex.ac.uk, logged in as "anonymous",
> and was told (amongst other things) that on-the-fly
> zip compression was indeed available; it even gave
> an example, using the "Rotating" package.  So, armed
> with that information, I did the following :
> 
>     cd tex-archive
>     cd systems
>     cd texlive
>     bin
>     hash
>     get 2008.zip
> 
> All seems to be progressing nicely.  I will report
> back further when the transfer has completed.
> 
> ** Phil.