Re: [NTG-context] live ConTeXt
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 - ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] live ConTeXt
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 Normally the freely distributed CDs contain a fairly outdated set of files including also an aged ConTeXt-version.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 ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] live ConTeXt
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] live ConTeXt
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/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
