\documentclass{article} \let\tldocenglish=1 % for live4ht.cfg %\usepackage{tex-live} % replacement macros \usepackage{url} \let\filename\url \newcommand\acro[1]{#1} \newcommand\TL{\TeX~Live} \let\ttdescription\description \let\endttdescription\enddescription \newcommand\htmlanchor[1]{\relax} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % translators: use your preferred encodings. \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} \section{Bits and pieces to be added to the \TL{} manual} \subsection{Add to: Command-line install-tl options} \begin{ttdescription} \item[-portable] Install for portable use on \emph{e.g.} a \acro{USB} stick. Also selectable from within the perltk- and text installers; see section~\ref{sec:portable-tl}. \item[-in-place] If you already have an rsync- or svn checkout of \TL{} then this option will use it as-is and just do the necessary post-install. Be warned that the file \filename{tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb} may be rewritten, and that removal has to be done manually. This option cannot be toggled via the installer interface. \end{ttdescription} % The next section replaces the `Maximally portable \protect\TL{} on % DVD and USB' section \section{Special scenarios} \htmlanchor{tlportable} \subsection{Creating a portable installation} \label{sec:portable-tl} The portable installer option creates a completely self-contained TeX Live installation under a common root and forgoes system integration. You can create such an installation directly on a \acro{USB} stick or copy it to a USB stick afterwards. If you want to run this portable installation, you need to add the appropriate binary directory to the searchpath during your terminal session. For Windows, you can double-click a batchfile \filename{tlmenu.bat} in the root of the installation that lets you choose between a few tasks: \begin{verbatim} === TeX Live Menu === 1 TeX Live command prompt 2 Managing the installation 3 TeXWorks Q Quit Make a choice \end{verbatim} \subsection{Running from \acro{ISO} or \acro{DVD}} If you don't update or modify your installation too often, and have several systems on which to use \TL{}, it may be convenient to create an \acro{ISO} of your \TL{} installation: \begin{itemize} \item Copying an \acro{ISO} between different computers is much faster than copying a normal installation. \item If you are dual-booting between different operating systems and want them to share a \TL{} installation, an \acro{ISO} installation is not tied to the idiosyncracies and limitations of other mutually supported filesystems (\acro{FAT32}, \acro{NTFS}, \acro{HFS+}). \item Virtual machines can simply mount such an \acro{ISO}. \end{itemize} When preparing for an \acro{ISO}- or \acro{DVD} installation, it makes sense not to have a subdirectory for the year, but to have \filename{texmf-local} at the same level as the other trees (\filename{texmf}, \filename{texmf-dist} etc.). \subsubsection{How to use} Desktop Unix/Linux systems, including Mac OS X, are able to mount an \acro{ISO}. Apart from that, nothing changes compared to a normal hard disk installation, see section \ref{sec:env}. For a physical (rather than virtual) Windows system, you can burn the \acro{ISO} to \acro{DVD}. However, it may be worth your while to investigate free \acro{ISO}-mounting options. For Windows XP, Microsoft itself offers \filename{winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel}. For Windows system integration, you can include the \filename{w32client} scripts described in \ref{sec:netinstall} and \url{http://www.tug.org/texlive/w32client.html}, which work just as well for an \acro{ISO}- as for a network installation. For Mac OS X, TeXshop and TeXworks will be able to use the \acro{DVD} installation if a symlink \filename{/usr/texbin} points to the appropriate binary directory, \emph{e.g.} \begin{verbatim} sudo ln -s /Volumes/MyTeXLive/bin/universal-darwin /usr/texbin \end{verbatim} \textbf{Note.} \TL{} 2010 was the first \TL{} edition which was no longer `live'. But it always required some acrobatics to run earlier versions from \acro{DVD} or \acro{ISO}. In particular, there was no way around setting at least one extra environment variable. If you create your \acro{ISO} from an existing installation then there is no need for this. \end{document}