[comp.text.tex] Decent TeX Installation Manual

sharp@snuffleupagus.csd.scarolina.edu (Harry Sharp) (11/17/90)

Greetings!

I have just attempted, for the third time, to install TeX on a machine.
I got farther than any other attempt, but now I can't get past the 
initex-inimf stage due to inadequacies in the TeX installation documentation.

What I have is the README file from Labrea, which is fine up to the
point where you have to build the format files and such.  Things seem to
fall apart at that stage.

What I would like (or would be real neat to have) is a decent, possibly
well written, manual or instruction sheet on installing TeX.  Actually,
all it would have to do would be to lay out, in very simply terms, the
steps to go through to install a version of TeX.  This would include
the initex-inimf stage of *.fmt building and how to build others and
font building.

Perhaps this thing already exists.  This would be a bonus!  If so, please
(somebody) e-mail the FTP address to me and I will go get it.  If such
an ideal item does not exist, does something close exist?  Again, where?

I look forward to hearing from all of you.

Harry Sharp
Department of Mathematics
University of South Carolina
sharp@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu