so since the installer detected miktex in the system path, the
installation failed?
No, I didn't mean to imply that. It wasn't clear from your message if
you saw some other failure.
even though TL was added to (the end of) the PATH,
menus was added etc...?
Sounds like success to me. If tlpkg/texlive.profile isn't there, well,
I'm baffled.
k