From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14754 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: live ConTeXt Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:09:33 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040218140819.01e2e9c8@server-1> References: <20040217155022.GA6608@mpdebian> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077112737 25369 80.91.224.253 (18 Feb 2004 13:58:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Feb 18 14:58:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtSE0-0001Aq-00 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:58:53 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895F710B5E; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:57:00 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A9110B58 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:54:09 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.10/SQL-8.12.10-1/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i1IDtnUb012660 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:55:49 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id E2F99303EF; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:55:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEF130CF6 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:55:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: Original-References: <20040217155022.GA6608@mpdebian> X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira Milter 1.0.6; VAE 6.24.0.4; VDF 6.24.0.9 Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14754 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------