Good evening, As there are plenty of live linux distributions on CDs I was wondering if there is one that includes ConTeXt. It should be relatively easy to make one based on KNOPPIX (my computer is too weak though). Please, let me know if you find one. Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
As there are plenty of live linux distributions on CDs I was wondering if there is one that includes ConTeXt. It should be relatively easy to make one based on KNOPPIX (my computer is too weak though). Please, let me know if you find one.
ConTeXt often needs little fixes, so a simple way to install updates and
generate new efmt files is needed. Thus it isn't really practical to
rely entirely on a CD-based distro, and in any case, you need something
other than ram to write the output files. You will do better to stick
with a robust distro like knoppix and find a way to use ConTeXt.
XP users can have texmf trees in their hard disk user data area that
knoppix can read, but writing to NTFS seems a bit dodgy.
Knoppix does, however, include everything you need to create user
accounts with specific UID/GID and mount NFS directories, so if you
can arrange a suitable NFS server, everything can live there. All
this can be done using knoppix.sh to start the necesary services
and unpack a new home directory from a user.tbz file. You will need
to save a configs.tbz after adding the required group and user passwd
entry (vigp, adduser, vipw, etc) and creating an fstab entry
for the nfs mount.
Here is the relevant section from a tweaked knoppix.sh:
echo "[1mStarting daemons...[0m"
for i in ifupdown networking portmap nfs-common sysklogd ; do
[ -x /etc/init.d/$i ] && /etc/init.d/$i start; done
[ -d "$1" ] && CONFIGS="$1/TEXUSER.tbz"
[ -f "$CONFIGS" ] || CONFIGS="/mnt/floppy/TEXUSER.tbz"
if [ -f "$CONFIGS" ]; then
echo "^[[1mExtracting config archive $CONFIGS...^[[0m"
tar -jpPxf "$CONFIGS" ; chown -R UID.GID /home/TEXUSER
fi
mkdir /mnt/NFS_SERVER && mount /mnt/NFS_SERVER
The usual config.tbz file will provide modified fstab, group, passwd, etc.
files. The TEXUSER.tgz file can provide scripts to add TeX to the
user's PATH, etc. Use "su TEXUSER" to become the new user.
--
George N. White III
At 19:23 17/02/2004, George N. White III wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
As there are plenty of live linux distributions on CDs I was wondering if there is one that includes ConTeXt. It should be relatively easy to make one based on KNOPPIX (my computer is too weak though). Please, let me know if you find one.
ConTeXt often needs little fixes, so a simple way to install updates and generate new efmt files is needed. Thus it isn't really practical to rely entirely on a CD-based distro, and in any case, you need something other than ram to write the output files. You will do better to stick with a robust distro like knoppix and find a way to use ConTeXt.
XP users can have texmf trees in their hard disk user data area that knoppix can read, but writing to NTFS seems a bit dodgy. Knoppix does, however, include everything you need to create user accounts with specific UID/GID and mount NFS directories, so if you can arrange a suitable NFS server, everything can live there. All this can be done using knoppix.sh to start the necesary services and unpack a new home directory from a user.tbz file. You will need to save a configs.tbz after adding the required group and user passwd entry (vigp, adduser, vipw, etc) and creating an fstab entry for the nfs mount.
One problem with linux programs is that sometimes paths are coded in the hard way, for instance, SciTE comes with hard coded paths and therefore cannot be run from cd Hans Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Piotr, There are several possibilities to get a running TeX-system. Normally the freely distributed CDs contain a fairly outdated set of files including also an aged ConTeXt-version. I would suggest to download TeX live from CTAN. Otherwise GUST should be able to provide you an up-to-date TeX live. If you have a running TeX system but no ConTeXt you can fetch ConTeXt archives from www.pragma-ade.com Kind regrds Willi Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Good evening,
As there are plenty of live linux distributions on CDs I was wondering if there is one that includes ConTeXt. It should be relatively easy to make one based on KNOPPIX (my computer is too weak though). Please, let me know if you find one.
Piotr
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