From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14745 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: live ConTeXt Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:23:36 -0400 Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077046239 12460 80.91.224.253 (17 Feb 2004 19:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Feb 17 20:30:32 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 1AtAvQ-0008Na-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:30:32 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF9310B49; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:28:39 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from cod.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca (cod.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca [142.176.61.253]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DF0010B24 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:27:04 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: id OAA24811; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: by gateway id <0HT800041R35AX@bionet.bio.dfo.ca> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:23:29 -0400 (AST) In-reply-to: <20040217155022.GA6608@mpdebian> X-X-Sender: gwhite@montigo.bio.dfo.ca Original-To: Context discussion-list 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:14745 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14745 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 "Starting daemons..." 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 Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada