[tex-live] report: testing installation on windows vista

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Apr 11 01:13:44 CEST 2009


On 10 April 2009 Andreas Hirsch wrote:

 > As far as we can assess, the problem occurs always if the first try
 > breaks and you choose 'continuing last installation'.
 > 
 > So the decided to use c:\texlive as installation folder an this works
 > properly (unfortunately this installation wents through without break so
 > we could not test 'continuing' - but we believe that for this folder the
 > problems don't exist).
 > 
 > After this, we strongly recommend to change the standard-installtion
 > from C:\program files\ to C:\texlive

No no no, if the installer can't deal with spaces in filenames, it's
clearly a bug which has to be fixed.  Can you help me to reproduce
the problem on Unix?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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