Hello,
I will try tomorrow to install the ConTeXt distribution at my school
(Windows 11), as a simple user. So far, we have texlive 2025 on several
computers, and I have a 2023 cygwin texlive running on my personnal
account. Quite often, I run into troubles in classrooms, where I do not
have access to last year's texlive binaries.
I have several questions:
1. The install page states that "On WINDOWS you can best run the script
as administrator because that will use shortcuts to programs instead of
copies which is more efficient. There you can also run the setpath.bat
file". Well, we are on holidays, and during the usual school time, I
have too much stuff to do to try this install, so I will have to go on
without any admin right (our IT administrator won't rather be there).
First question: will my installation be much slower than when using
links? Our accounts are already connected from a network (a separated
drive Z:\ that is symlinked to C:\Users\ on each computer at school), so
when using TexLive under Cygwin, it is already slow, and my typical user
case is correcting my presentation during the lesson…
2. Download bandwidth is limited for users, so I wondered how may I
install as many offline as possible.
What I have in my pendrive:
– context-win64.zip
– texmf.zip
– texmf-context.zip
For example, if I unpack the archives and then run install.bat, will the
files be downloaded?
Thanks,
Damien
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