[texhax] MikTex 2.8 and Windows 2.8
Tom Backer Johnsen
backer at psych.uib.no
Fri Jan 29 19:20:17 CET 2010
More on the same problem:
Summary: I am unable to install the "Basic miktex 2.8" on Windows (both
7 and NT) running in a Parallells virtual machine on a MacBook Pro.
Some reflections on what had happened lead me to think that there are
than more sources of errrors here. One is the download itself, which
seems to break down easily, leading to an incomplete download. This is
on what I regard as a very good connection at my office at my university
(Bergen, Norway), one which has never given any problems before. In
other words, I do have a problem with the downloads from the MikTeX
mirrors to the Mac. In order to eliminate possible problems there, I
downloaded the file to a different machine (my Windows domenico
web server), transferred the file to a memory stick, and attempted to
install the file on the Mac from the memory stick. I started the
install program on the Mac from the same file on the memory stick three
times. The install broke down at different places, but each time with
the same error, "Windows API error 2: The system cannot find the file
specified":
First time: miktex-dict-english.tpm
Second: miktex-omega-bin-2.8.tpm
Third: miktex-bin-2.8.tpm
In other words, the error is variable. Thinking that the connection to
the memory stick itself might be a problem, I then copied the install
file to a file in the virtual machine, and then got the same message,
but referring to a still different file: miktex-hunspell-bin-2.8.tpm. A
second attempt from this install file gave the same error as the first
attempt above. Strange.
I am way out of my depth here, but could it be that the machine is
simply too fast for the install program? I have very limited experience
with Apple and OSX (bought the machine a month ago, but I have used
Windows machines intensively from the very beginning), but I have never
encountered anything like this before with any other installs.
Tom
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 26 January 2010 Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
>
> > When using the Basic installer downloaded (using Mozilla Firefox,
> > version 3.6) from the server in Denmark I get the error message:
> >
> > ...\mik23586\euenc.tar.lzma
>
> I don't see any error message. Sorry.
>
> Regards,
> Reinhard
>
>
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