On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>> ···<date: 2012-11-22, Thursday>···<from: Pablo Rodríguez>···
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to use a ConTeXt Standalone on a computer with
>>> WinXP Pro and no internet connection and no administrative rights.
>>>
>>> Isn't it possible to install on a different computer (let's say
>>> c:\context) and then move that to the same directory on the other
>>> computer?
>>>
>>> I'm really interested in knowing whether this works, since I must first
>>> ask to a friend to be able to install ConTeXt on her computer to be able
>>> to use it on the computer I want. I'm on Linux myself.
>>
>>
>> You can install the minimals (for windows) on a pendrive with
>> Wine. This way I had no problem accessing my university’s Adobe
>> fonts at public computers in the library. All I had was a
>> restricted user account and cmd.exe. I used to work flawlessly
>> (until they disabled the terminal when they did a global upgrade
>> to win7).
>
> Does first-setup support --platform=all? That way, you don't need wine to
> create a USB drive with binaries for windows (and all linux architectures).
One definitely doesn't need wine. If one only has a linux machine on
the network, using
./first-setup.sh --platform=mswin
should suffice (probably one only needs to run mtxrun/mktexlsr and
"context --make" [texexec --make] for the first time on the new
machine).
If you have windows computer, just fetch the files and copy them to
the other machine. Actually, we also had zips
(http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/), but I stopped updating
them.
The distribution is not "installed" in traditional sense. Only the
files are fetched and nothing is written into global PATH or registry.
Mojca
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